Search Results: a selection of the principal voyages by hakluyt richard

William Heinemann, 1926. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1926. No Edition Stated. 293 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. B&W illustrations throughout. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Front hinge cracked with netting visible, thus the board is slack and endpaper partly detached. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing, staining and marking to boards. Moderate sunning to spine.

Alfred A. Knopf. Trade Paperback. Good/None. No DJ. Inked name on FEP. Boards tanned, rubbed and worn. Pages tanned.

Knopf, 1926-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelfwear. Clean, unmarked pages.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. Hardback in good condition. Tipped in plates. Foxing to book.. Hardcover. Good.

William Heinemann Ltd, 1927. 1927 rep. hardcover. 293pp, original blue cloth with gold decoration to front board, cracking to front and rear endpapers, owner's signature, slack, Good. Set out with many embellishments and a preface by Laurence Irving.. Glacier Books are experienced and professional booksellers. We take pride in offering carefully described books and excellent customer service.

London: William Heinemann, 1926. First Edition Thus . Hardcover. Very Good. Hardback. A very good copy in dark blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and decorated in gilt on the upper board. Pp.xxiv,293. Many illustrations, some tipped-in. Preface by Laurence Irving.

London: William Heinemann, 1927. Light wear to covers. Rought cut pages. Text/illustrations clean, tight and bright. hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket.

NY: Alfred A. Knopf. Used-Good/NO DUSTJACKET. 1926. Hardcover. 8vo., 293 pp. .

New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1926. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. Laurence Irving. Notable for Irving's excellent illustrations throughout. These are numerous in the text and also include tipped-in plates, printed black on dark cream paper. All in VG internal order, bar just a little foxing to edge of block. Quarter yellow cloth with paper label to spine and black cloth boards lightly worn with minor bumping. This is a charity sale for Friends Of Morston Church (reg.1099831). 8vo. 294pp

John Dent & Sons Ltd, 1908. Cloth. Very Good. Everyman Library Edition; xii, 387pp, Green cloth covers, with gilt titling to spine, illustrated jesuit end papers. One of 8 volumes. Richard Hakluyt was born in 1552 and took Holy Orders, and in 1593 he became Archdeacon of Westminster. He died in 1616 and is buried in Westminster Abbey. Edited by Ernest Rhys and introduced by John Masefield. A history of noteworthy British voyages from earliest times, starting with King Arthur's voyage to Iceland in 517. "The full title of the great work commonly known as Hakluyt's Voyages is The Principal Navigations, Voyages, and Discoveries of the English Nation made by Sea or over Land to the most remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compass of these 1,500 years. It was first published in 1589, and it its final form, in three folio volumes in 1599. In the three sections of the work, the first deals with voyages to the northern regions. Russia and Tartary;… Read More

Willilam Heinemann 1926. SCRUFFY EX-LIBRARY, super octavo hardcover (scruffy); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs

William Heinemann, 1927-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Ex-library book, usual markings. Plain blue Hardcover/Hardback. Well read copy with some spine wear but very useable.

London: William Heinemann, 1927. 293 pages in very good, clean condition. Occasional foxing, especially on the few first and last pages. Illustrated endpapers. Blue cloth with gilt titles and illustration. Small tears at the head/tail of the spine. Corners bumped and a little frayed. Minor scuffing and rubbing on the covers. GOOD+. Hard Cover. Good+.

Knopf 1927. hbk 294pp illustrated in the text and with tipped-in woodcuts and fine endpapers by Irving lacks dj quarter beige cloth over black cloth boards slightly shelfworn paper label on spine now in custom acetate jacket prev owner's name on first pastedown and inscription <Xmas 1932> on title page a fine example of this volume

Alfred A. Knopf. DJ in archival cover large and small chips. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1927.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. 8vo, pp. xxiv, 293, [1]; frontispiece illustration tipped-in, plates, woodcuts throughout, illustrated endpapers; very good or better in original orange cloth over black cloth, pictorial paper spine label, dust-jacket with minor water staining and small chips.

Knopf, New York, 1927-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Ex-Library. Rebound Hardback. Clean & tight.