Haklyut richard (3 resultados)

Quarter leather. 8vo, pp.310, Index, b/w frontis port., b/w plates, ep maps, top edge tinted, original quarter leather bds., scraped at top of spine otherwise v.g. Edited by John Hampden (ilustrador).

Vellum spine. Condición: Good. Limited Edition. Limited edition, no. 96/100 copies bound in quarter vellum with gilt title and decoration and blue cloth with gilt cartouche. Printed on handmade paper with illustrations on Japanese. Limitation initialled by the publisher. Published between 1903-05. With illustrations and foldout maps. The text is from the 2nd edition, revised and enlarged, of 1598-1600. Volume12 contains a contemporary essay on the voyages by Professor Walter Raleigh and the index for the set. Condition: Variable sunning to some of the spines, most significantly to Vol. 5. See photos. Some soiling to vellum. Internally, tanning to front and rear end pages. Light offsetting to the title page of several volumes. Clean inside. Individual notes: Vol.3: Top of spine sprung. Vol 6 has a tiny nick to the spine edge. Vol 7 has a knock to the top corner. Vol 9 has a knock to the foot of the spine. Please see photos. To be added soon. 8vos, 11.8kg unpacked. May incur extra shipping costs overseas. Please enquire. Illustrated + maps (ilustrador). …

leather_bound. New Edition. Limited edition, one of 75 large-paper copies on "Imperial Paper" -- considered the best and most complete edition. "An accurate reprint of the best folio [edition of 1599-1600] with the addition of those voyages which were published in the first edition, and omitted in the second. It likewise has a supplement containing all the voyages and travels printed by Hakluyt, or at his suggestion, which forms the latter part of the fourth, and the whole of the fifth volume" PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 105. "Although Hakluyt himself never travelled farther 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 met many of the great navigators -- Drake, Raleigh, Gilbert, Frobisher and others." HILL p.132; LOWNDES II,p.972; SABIN 29599. Moderate wear to cover extremities, two bookplates inside front covers. Contemporary calf paneled in gilt and blind in leather reback, red leather spine labels. 5 vols. Very good.…