meridian publishing edition first edition (3 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. With dust jacket. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Printed wrappers, 8vo, iv, [1 leaf], 265 pp. Approximately 2,500 entries. A bibliography of works in all languages relating travels to the Holy Land. Includes useful notes on the works described, Bookplate of William and Marianne Salloch on front inside wrapper, wrappers a little marked, slightly musty smelling, otherwise Good.

Cloth, gilt cover device, oblong 4to, 26 x 29.5 cm, xiii, [60], 114, 118 pp, 41 maps. A facsimile of the first English edition of Blaeu's "Het Lioht der Zeevaert," of which the earliest known Dutch edition is dated 1608. The first booke of the light of navigation -- The second book of the light of navigation. From the introductory 'Bibliographical Note':"In 1599 Willem Janszoon Blaeu established himself in Amsterdam as a maker of nautical instruments, globes and maps. At this time the standard guides used by seamen on the coasts of western and northern Europe were the pilot-books of Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer published by the Amsterdam bookseller Cornells Claesz, supplemented by those of Aelbert Haeyen and (for the Mediterranean) Willem Barentsz. Blaeu's first pilot-book, Het Licht der Zeevaert, of which the earliest known edition is dated 1608, was reprinted in Dutch, English and French editions until it was superseded by his larger Zeespiegel^ (first published in 1623), with its English version; and between them these two 'Books of Seacardes' by Blaeu held their own until about the middle of the century, when a number of other Amsterdam map-sellers entered this profitable market and the energies of the house of Blaeu were engaged in different fields of cartographic publication. Thus a whole generation of seamen was served by the successive editions of Blaeu's guides to navigation, and the hard use which they suffered is reflected in the rarity of surviving copies." Booklabel of Oscar V. Viney on front pastedown endpaper, covers somewhat spotted and browned, otherwise Good.