New York: W. W. Norton, (1967). First edition. Hardcover. 390 pp., illustrated; octavo, original black cloth, pictorial dustjacket. A well-written and well-regarded history of the famed explorer and author. More
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Paris: Baudouin, Imprimeur de l'Institut National, 1802. First edition. Hardcover. [2] fl., iii, (403) pp.; small quarto, pastepaper boards, old cloth rebacking, morocco spine label. “Not merely is this admirable essay the best bibliography of the collection of De Bry and Thevenot, but it also contains a great variety of... More
New York: Trustees of the Lennox Library, 1897. First edition. Hardcover. xiii, [2], 61 pp. illustrated; small octavo, original maroon cloth stamped in gilt. More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press for the Hakluyt Society, 1955, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes, large octavos, original blue buckram, gilt; cclxxxiv, 684; clxx, 1021 pp., both volumes profusely illustrated with plates, maps, charts, etc. First editions of the first 2 volumes from the first publication of "Cook's own record... More
Lisboa: Divisao de Publicacoes e Biblioteca. Agencia Geral das Colonias, 1939. Second edition (2.a Ediçao correcta e levemente aumentada). Hardcover. Contemporary full tan calf with morocco spine labels, original card wrappers bound in, octavo (6.5 x 9.5 inches), 532, [1] pp. Profusely illustrated with plates, maps and charts (many folding)... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972. First edition thus. Hardcover. xiv, 283 pp., illustrated; octavo, original pale blue cloth with gilt title and ornaments, jacket. "This is an account of the expedition of royal and private ships which left Plymouth in 1595 under the command of Drake and Hawkins with the... More
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1912. First US edition. Hardcover. Octavo, green cloth with color pictorial inset on front cover; xx, 356 pp., illustrated with 8 color plates and 74 half-tones, large folding map at rear. Covers are clean and bright, moderate foxing to text throughout. Melville William Hilton-Simpson... More
Paris: L'Imprimerie de la Republique, An V (1796/97). First edition thus. Hardcover. xvi, 385 pp. 2 folding maps; small quarto, contemporary full mottled calf, gilt spine, morocco lettering piece. First French edition of Thomas Howel's "A Journal of the Passage from India, by a Route Partly Unfrequented through Armenia and... More
Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo, original burgundy cloth; 303 pp., frontispiece and 8 plates with tissue guards. Small stain to front free endpaper, else very good in moderately edgeworn dustjacket. First English translation of the French text originally published in London in 1702. This copy with... More
NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1907. First edition. Hardcover. Original green cloth stamped in gilt, red, and white; large octavo (7 x 10.5 inches); xx, 411 pp. Profusely illustrated with 95 b/w photos, color frontispiece, 2 large folding maps. Minor wear to covers, owner name and bookplate to front fixed endpaper. More
London: Hakluyt Society, 1848. First edition thus. Hardcover. Later (but not recent) half slate-blue calf and boards with spine gilt in compartments; lxxv, xv, 240 pp. Illustrated with folding frontispiece map showing Ralegh's route, facsimile title page from the first edition. Corners lightly bumped, small ink notation to half title... More
London: Andre Deutsch, (1996). First edition. Hardcover. xxii, [1], 272 pp.; quarto, original green cloth with gilt spine title, pictorial jacket. Introductory text is followed by the complete facsimile with circa 200 full color reproductions of the extraordinary late-sixteeenth-century Drake manuscript. More