Drake cavendish (42 risultati)

Brown Decorated Cloth. Condizione: VERY GOOD ( AVERAGE). No Jacket. This is the first edition. Brown free endpages and fore'edges. Brown stain marks in places on the pages. Page 15 has got black pen lines along lower edge. Worn and rubbed to the outer cover binding edges and corners. Outer cover binding is stained marked in plac…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Print on Demand. This book presents the extraordinary voyages and extraordinary discoveries of Christopher Columbus, whose daring expeditions in the 15th century irrevocably changed the course of world history. From his initial journeys to the Caribbean, which introduced Europe to the Americas, to his…

Couverture souple. Condizione: bon. ROD0045391: 1827. In-18. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 216 pages avec gravure en frontispice. Introduction. Voyage de Magellan, projet d'un passage au Sud-Ouest, départ de la flotte. Aventures désastreuses. Découverte de détroit de Magellan. Arrivée aux…

First Editions thus. Being volumes 1-12 of the fourth year of the series. Bound two volumes in one. Small 8vo (5 1/2 x 3 3/8 inches), Contemporary full tan marbled calf, decorative gilt border to sides. Spine gilt with crimson lettering piece and green numbering piece, inner gilt dentelles, gilt decoration to edges of boards, al…

Hardcover. First Edition. Folio (9" x 14") bound in modern tan morocco leather with gilt decorative rules on the covers, gilt-decorated and lettered spine with six raised bands, gilt dentelles; [iv], 706 pages. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and 56 full-page engraved plates, some with two images per plate, including t…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Folio. 706 pp. with 63 plates (54 engraved plates, 8 maps, 1 folding map). Hardcover, bound in later red morocco over marbled boards, edges cut and sprinkled red (rather tightly on the fore-edge). The binding rubbed but solid; old repair to verso to the final plate; the rare blemish…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. First edition. Folio, 35 cm. Modern quarter leather over marbled boards. Title in red and black, list of subscribers. 706 pp.; frontispiece, 8 maps (of 9), and 54 plates. Text in double column. Loss to corner of title page and dedication leaf. Chip loss and tears to margins of Map of A…

Hardback. Condizione: Fair. Second edition. Full black buckram over original, front board cracked. Fifty eight plates some re-mounted, some repaired some torn, Title page and dedication remounted. Magazine cutting pasted to page facing beginning of chapter 1. Minor tears and old repairs on many of the pages. Chapter 1 first page…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Contemporary morocco, rebacked, with gilt-stamped lettering in leather spine label (7 raised bands); folio (9.5 x 14.25 inches); pp. [2] (title-page printed in red and black, blank), 706, [4] (list of subscribers), plus 62 plates (maps, full-page illustrations, or two illustrations per page), p…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. VG pp. [2] (title-page printed in red and black, blank), 706, [4] (list of subscribers), plus 62 plates (maps, full-page illustrations, or two illustrations per page), printed on the recto only. joints and edges of boards scuffed; boards rubbed. Internally bright and clean with occasional staini…

"A collection of voyages and relations of experiences by travelers from the time of the Portuguese navigators to the middle of the eighteenth century, including those of Magellan, Drake, Cavendish, Olivier van Noort, William Dampier, Woodes Rogers, John Clipperton, George Anson, and Lionel Wafer" - Hill. This is the supposed thi…