The Drake-Mellon map, manuscript, ca. 1587 = Vera descriptio expeditionis nauticæ Francisci Draci Angli, equitis aurati : qui quinq. nauibus probè instructis, ex occidentali Angliæ parte anchoras soluens, tertio post decimo Decembris Anno M.D. LXXVII, terrarũ orbis ambitum circumnauigans, unica tantũ naui reliqua (alijs fluctibus, alijs flamma correptis) redux factus, sexto suprà vigesimo Sep: 1580.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:	Vera descriptio expeditionis nauticæ Francisci Draci Angli, equitis aurati
Corporate Author:	Yale Center for British Art
Format:	Map
Language:	Latin English
Language Notes:	Map in Latin; text on margins in English.
Published:	[Chicago] : Rand McNally & Company, 1978.
Subjects:	Voyages around the world > Maps > Early works to 1800 > Facsimiles. Discoveries in geography > Maps > Early works to 1800 > Facsimiles. World maps > Early works to 1800 > Facsimiles. Early maps > Facsimiles. Drake, Francis, > approximately 1540-1596 > Travel > Maps > Early works to 1800 > Facsimiles. Drake, Francis, > approximately 1540-1596. Discoveries in geography. Travel. Voyages around the world. World maps. Early works. Facsimiles.

Description
Item Description:	Shows Francis Drake's route of Golden Hind around the world between 1577 and 1580. It is a reduced copy of the map Drake had made for Queen Elizabeth I upon his return in 1581. The original larger map was destroyed by fire, making the present manuscript map the earliest extant to mark the route of Drake's circumnavigation. The present map was probably drawn around 1587 since it not only tracks (with a light-brown line) the route of Drake's ship The Golden Hind on its trip around the world in 1577-1580, but also illustrates the route and activities of his Caribbean voyage of 1585-1586 (marked with a dark-brown line). The artist may be Baptista Boazio, page to Lieutenant General Christopher Carleill. Boazio served as draftsman and mapmaker on Drake's West Indian voyage of 1585-1586. His maps of that voyage were published in Walter Bigges' Summarie and true discourse of Sir Francis Drakes West Indian voyage (London : Richard Field, 1589). Facsimile reproduction from original in Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection. Relief shown pictorially. Includes 2 insets, notes, and text. Illustrations on verso. Issued as Christmas greeting from Rand Rand McNally & Company. The Cushing Library/Basbanes Collection copy is part of the Nicholas A. Basbanes Collection.
Physical Description:	1 map : color ; 22 x 43 cm folded to 27 x 12 cm