Taylor e g r introduction (6 resultados)

Softcover. Condición: Good. Title page leaf, following leaf, and inside of front cover are foxed. Rear cover is lightly foxed, last two leaves are very slightly foxed. Rear cover has a crease to the upper outer corner. ; Maritime Monographs and Reports No. 18 - 1974. Approx. 8 1/8" wide by 11 5/8". ; 14 pages. …

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Decorated paper-covered boards, DW, 12mo., 31, (1) pages, 40 color plates from John Speed's Pocket Atlas of 1627. Inscription, else a near fine copy in a near fine DW, in archival mylar.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition. No. 356 of 550 copies. Original publisher's red cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. Some leaves unopened. 7" x 10." Pages xli, 1-415, complete. Five black-and-white maps, complete. List of Maps and Introduction in front. Appendix A: Posts, Appendix B: Biographical, and Index in back. Fifteen additional pages in back show the names of Champlain Society officers and members, subscribing libraries, and other Champlain Society publications. Former owner's black-and-white bookplate tipped in on front pastedown ("Vigilans et Avdax; Sir James Dunn, Bart., Q.C., LL.D., 1874-1956"). Pages are very clean and intact except for age toning, small occasional marks or stains, slight wear to extremities, and the former owner's bookplate. Covers are very clean and intact except for slight discoloration on spine, light rubbing, slightly bumped corners, and slight wear to extremities. A Very Good copy. This is No. XI of The Hudson's Bay Company Series, a sub-series within The Publications of the Champlain Society series. Edited by E. E. Rich with assistance by A. M. Johnson. Introduction by E. G. R. Taylor. This volume contains transcriptions of letters by or relating to the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) that were originally written from about 1680-1687. The Preface clarifies that discrepancies in the original letters' dating system means that some of the transcribed documents herein date as early to 1679 and as late to 1694. The Preface also describes the letters in this volume as being a companion collection to the minutes of HBC. Front colophon: "Five Hundred and Fifty Copies of this Volume have been printed. Fifty are reserved for Editorial purposes. The remaining Five Hundred are supplied only to Members of the Society and to Subscribing Libraries. This copy is No. 356.".…

Hardcover. Second Series, No. LXX. Hardcover, (Pastel blue cloth with gilt titles and gilt cover decoration), 8vo. (Lxxxix) + 164pp. One illustration. three fold-out maps. Translated and edited.by Cecil Jane. Sub-titled: "Including those contained in R.H. Major's Select letters of Christopher Columbus". Tight. No D/j. No names or other markings, Fine.…

Hardcover. Condición: vg. First edition. Quarto. LVI, 210pp. Uncut and partly unopened copy! Original gilt-, and blind-stamped blue cloth, with gold lettering on spine. Frontispiece. Transcript of Roger Barlow's manuscript dedicated to Henry VIII (Royal mss. 18 B. XXVIII), and being the earliest account in English of the New World. Barlow's manuscript is a translation of Enciso's "Suma de geographia," with much original and supplementary matter by him. Minor shelf wear. Binding and interior in overall very good condition.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. lvi+210 pages with frontispiece, tables, folding map, genealogy chart, appendix, bibliography and index. Octavo (9" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and pictorial representation of the ship Victoria to the covers and blind stamped ruled edge in original jacket. Edited with an introduction and notes by E G R Taylor. Hakluyt Society Second Series Number LXIX (119). First edition. Transcript of the manuscript dedicated to Henry VIII (Royal mss. 18 B. XXVIII), with a pedigree of Barlow, edited with an introduction and notes. Barlow's translation of Enciso's Suma de geographia, with much original and supplementary matter by him. After becoming a merchant in Seville, Barlow joined Sebastian Cabot's 1526 voyage to South America. He accompanied Cabot up the Rio de la Plata (River Plate) river system. He returned to England in 1530 and lived in Bristol, where he married Julyan Dawes. He moved to Pembrokeshire in 1535. In 1542 he presented a cosmography to Henry VIII, based on a translation of Enciso's Spanish Suma de Geographie. This included Barlow's descriptions of his travels - the first account of the New World in English. Roger Barlow had three younger brothers, William Barlow (successively bishop of St David's, Bath and Wells, and Chichester), John Barlow (dean of Worcester), and Thomas Barlow (a cleric in Norfolk). After renting the dissolved commandery of the hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem at Slebech, Roger and Thomas Barlow bought Slebech in 1546, and then Roger became the sole owner in 1553. Barlow had at least 10 children, including John who inherited Slebech, near Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, south west Wales. Condition: Some pages unread and need separating. Corners bumped. Jacket Spine sunned and age toned, spine ends and edges chipped else very good in like jacket.…