HAKLUYT, Richard (1552?-1616). The Principal Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, Made by Sea or Over-land, to the Remote and Farthest Distant Quarters of the Earth . London: George Bishop, Ralph Newberie and Robert Barker, 1599-1600.The important second edition of the most complete record of Elizabethan voyages of discovery with the later-suppressed, genuine "Voyage to Cadiz" report present. The Lord Wardington copy, and with early female provenance. This second edition is greatly expanded over the first edition of 1589, with the entire third volume dedicated to America. "Though Hakluyt himself never traveled further than France, he inspired some of the great overseas explorations of his time and was one of the leading spirits in the Elizabethan maritime expansion ... He pleaded for a voyage to find the Northwest Passage, which he firmly believed to exist" (Hill). Hakluyt's account of the English victory at Cadiz in 1596 was suppressed after that victory's hero, the Earl of Essex, fell into disgrace with Queen Elizabeth. The "Voyage to Cadiz" report is present here in its original printing (pages numbered 607-619; at least two 18th century reprints were made). The volume one title-page has "yeres" rather than "yeares" on line 7. Church 322; ESTC S106753; PMM 105; Sabin 29595-29598.th century red morocco gilt, spines gilt in compartments with raised bands (spines scuffed and corners showing, a little repair to spine ends). Provenance : Katherin Springett; possibly the ocular surgeon of that name, 1599-1647 (ownership signature on vol. 1 title-page verso) – H.C.L. Morris, M.D. (bookplates; Sotheby’s, 5 May 1942, lot 467) – with Bernard Quaritch (catalogue 641, item 83) – Christopher Henry Beaumont Pease, 2nd Baron Wardington, 1924-2005 (leather bookplates; his sale, Sotheby’s, 18 October 2005, lot 182).