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London: Nelson, n.d. [ca 1930's].. Roy 8vo xxvii+554 pp. Profusely illus from line drawings in text and plates in b&w and colour. Gilt decorated blue cloth with colour rendition of Ptolemy's map of the world laid onto top cover. Corners and spine tips a bit bruised and worn but a . very good copy..

Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd., 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 554 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt and an illustration pasted on. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Plates are bright and clear. Binding remains firm. Cracking to hinges, no damage to end papers. Previous owner's inscription to front free end-paper. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Cloth has minor damp and dust stains. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate tanning to spine.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. First American edition. No publication date. Edges rubbed, ink name on front free endpaper, pages foxed. xxvii, 554 pp. Color frontispiece and plates (8 total, including one fold-out), 16 black-and-white plates, illustrations throughout text. A fascinating account of the world's famous explorers, including the early travelers in ancient times, the discovery of the New World, explorations in Africa and Australia, and the expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic. Many of the explorers tell part of their story in their own words. Amply illustrated with reproductions of early maps and charts, as well as old woodcuts, drawings, paintings, and miniatures. Emphasis is placed on the explorers' "record of splendid endurance, of hardships bravely borne, of silent toil, of courage and resolution unequalled in the annals of mankind, of self-sacrifice unrivalled and faithful lives laid ungrudgingly down.

1940.

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The A Book of Discovery the History of the World's Exploration, from the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole.

Thomas Nelson and Sons. Hardback. No date but with gift inscription dated 1958. Dark green cloth with gilt titles and gilt decorations including a sailing ship to the spine and highly decorative shaped gilt border including and anchor surround a colour illustrated paste down of Ptolomy's map of the world. xiii,554pp. Colour frontis and 8 further colour plates including a foldout colour reproduction of the Mappa Mundi of Hereford and a double spread of Pierre Desceliers Map of the World of 1546. 16 Black and white plates. Additional integral black and white illustrations throughout. Worn to head of spine. rubbed and slightly bumped to corners. Gilt a little dull. Some uneven tanning to prelims. Plates are bright. Binding is sound. Good+, sound copy . Hardback.

Paperback / softback. New.

London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, Book. Fine. Hardcover. ( no date,circe 1955), blue pict. cloth, cover & spine, with cover paste-down of map, pp., xxvii, 554 p.,deckle edges,numerous illustrations, (9 plates in full color, (some folding,) numerous text illustrations,d.j. is NOT price-clipped, index, chronology, a bright, clean copy , d.j. has some edge wear and minor edge tears,small lossat foot of spine of d.j., in protective mylar jacket. Size: 4 to., (23 cm.).

Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The A Book of Discovery : The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole.

Hardback. New.

TREDITION CLASSICS. paperback. New. 5x1x8. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

Edinburgh: T.C. & E.C. Jack, Ltd. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. N.d., [1850]. Bound by Birdsall in half contemporary goatskin, brown cloth boards, gilt triple filet, gilt back, raised bands. xxvii, 554 pp., [13] colour plates, [16] B&W plates, numerous B&W illustrations in text. Some minor rubbing to edges and cracking to joints, else fine. A short copy. Bookplate of Charles Cobb Walker, embossed ex libris stamps. A lovely volume. 0.