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London: Edward Lumsky, 1839. Scarce. Maundevile's Travels. Small b/w illustrations within text. 326 pages. Green decorative cloth cover with embossed designs on front and back, gold gilted titles on spine and gold logo on front. Book is in fair condition, front cover is very loose, sticthing has come away, spine is loose, a few front pages have detached, cloth cover has frayed at top edge of spine, overall book is loose and pages have yellowed. Fair/--. Decorative Cloth. Fair/No Jacket.

London: Edward Lumley, 1839. Book. Illus. by 72 Charming Woodcuts. Very Good. 3/4 Leather. Later Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Later edition from the 1725 edition, with introduction, notes and glossary by J.O. Halliwell. This is a rare, finely bound edition, with top edge gilt, and marbled boards, professionally rebacked with corners tight. 72 facsimile woodcuts from antique editions. Clean and tight inside, a very nice copy. The paper is especially nice, without stains or browning..

London: J Woodman; D Lyon; C Davis. G: in good condition. Rebacked with original eps. Leather mottled. Inner hinge cracking. Sporadic foxing and marking. 1725. First Edition. Brown hardback leather cover. 240mm x 150mm (9" x 6"). xxiv, 384pp, [vii]. With heraldic bookplate (C W H Sotheby) to front paste-down. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville described the travels of an English knight who left England c.1322 to journey throughout Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Persia, and Turkey. The Knight returned with fantastical stories of strange beasts, monsters and mythical creatures and of the strange islands that they inhabited. Interestingly, surprisingly accurate geographical descriptions are woven into Mandeville's stories and whimsy. The authorship of Mandeville's Travels remains unknown. Historians cannot decide whether the author was French or English, though generally agree that the book was originally composed in French. The character of Mandeville was almost certainly fictitious. .