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The World Publishing Co.. Fine. 1966. Hardcover. 8vo . In slipcase. We specialize in fine books in collectible condition. Orders are professionaly packaged and shipped promptly. H1 .

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London: The Argonaut Press, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. 4to. Pp. 235. Illustrated with drawings and maps including a fold-out facsimile. Title page woodcut in black and beige. Index. Aqua buckram boards with stamped gilt illustration, animal vellum spine stamped with gilt titles. Blue bookmark ribbon. Edges untrimmed. First publication of the Argonaut Press, printed on Japon Vellum by Walter Lewis at the University Press, Cambridge. Number 394 of an edition limited to 975. Previous owner blind stamp on FFEP. Covers stained and sunned, corners and spine ends bumped, spine titles rubbed. Leaves clean and bright. A volume in the lauded series devoted to the Age of Exploration.

This is a terrific condition copy of "The World Encompassed" by Sir Francis Drake (originally published in 1628), together with "The Relation of a Wonderfull Voiage" by William Cornelison Schouten (originally published in 1619). Nicely bound in full vellum with string ties and a gilt shield on the front cover. 1966; The World Publishing Company; Cleveland, Ohio. Also included is a 24-page booklet with "Historical Introductions" by A.L. Rowse and "Bibliographical Notes" by Robert O. Dougan.Condition:Some very light foxing to the vellum covers. Tight binding with no cracks and no loose pages. Nice interior - the pages are clean and appear unread with no issues found. The front end paper has a rectangular name/address label affixed at the top-right corner. Overall the book is in Near Fine condition. The storage box is in Fine condition - clean both inside and out with no issues found.

Bert Franklin for the Hakluyt Society, New York, No date. Reprint. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition. Introduction by W. S. W. Vaux. At the rear of the book there is a six page fold out map showing the route of the voyage of the Sir Francis Drake. Blue coloured cloth covered boards with gilt coloured titles to the back strip. This book is a reprint of the 1854 edition published by the Hakluyt Society from the original 1628 edition. As the title suggests Sir Francis Drake's recollections of the voyage around the world along with the memoirs of his chaplain. This book is part of the first series of the Hakluyt Society's first series of publications of 50 titles – this being number 16. Some minor rubbing and softening of the back strip edges with rubbing of the book corners. Very minor age toning of the text block edges and pages. Remnants of a sticker to be seen to the top right hand corner of the free front end page. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" -… Leer más

London: Argonaut Press, 1926., 1926. 4to. pp. lxv, [2], 235, [1 leaf]. with half-title. 4pp. publisher's ads & related bookseller's letter loosely inserted. facsimile title, 4 maps (1 folding), & 4 smaller text illus. (incl. 1 map). title vignette. Uncut in original quarter vellum. Limited to 975 numbered copies on Japon Vellum. A reprint of the 1628 edition of the first full-length account of the first circumnavigation of the globe by an Englishman, which was compiled fifty years after the voyage by the admiral's nephew and namesake, Sir Francis Drake, chiefly from the notes of Chaplain Francis Fletcher. The present edition incorporates additional material, including an important prefatory essay by Sir Richard Carnac Temple and selected contemporary documents by Francis Fletcher, John Cooke, Thomas Doughty, Nuño da Silva, Sarmiento de Gamboa, Edward Cliffe, and others. Cox I p. 40. Hill p. 86. Howgego D74. National Maritime Museum I 79 [vide FLETCHER, Francis].>.

London: Hakluyt Society, 1854. Book. Very good- condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo (8vo). 8, viii, xl, 295 pages of text including an index. Original blue stamped hardcover binding with gilt spine lettering and front cover gilt stamp of the ship "Victoria." Spine is heavily darkened and rubbed, with chipping to spine extremities and tearing at hinges; protected in custom stiff archival mylar. Illustrated with a large black & white linen-backed fold-out map. First Series, No. 16. Original subscriber's name in ink on title page, and on a Working Men's College Library bookplate on front endpaper; library label on front endpaper, and a few oval stamps in margins of text; no spine markings. Inner hinges are cracked; first few pages are loosening, but textblock remains intact. From the 1628 edition 'collected out of the notes of Master Francis Fletcher', collated with the British Museum, Sloane MS 61..