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Super octavo hardcover (Near FINE) in d/w (VG+); 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.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Lovely Fold-out Maps; b/w Illus (illustratore). 1st. 1st thus edition; dj in mylar; navy c w/gilt decorations/titles; 284 clean, unmarked pages +errata page.a firsthand account of his early 17th-century commercial expeditions to West and Central Africa. It provides a vital European perspective on the region's indigenous societies and details the expanding trading networks of Dutch merchants along the Atlantic coast.

Condizione: New.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. pp.xv, 139 with col. frontis. portrait and b/w. maps. Large 8vo. Two indentations to front board and dw. o/w. a fine hardback in nr. fine dw. This volume begins with an introductory biography and presents Van den Broeke's account of his four trading voyages to Africa in the early seventeenth century.

Large 8vo. Publisher's original navy blue cloth gilt, in the dust-jacket. Generally an excellent copy. The Hakluyt Society was founded in 1846 in London for the publication of primary sources of exploration and discovery expeditions. They were named after Richard Hakluyt (1552-1616) a collector and editor of narratives of voyages and travels. The publications are primarily from English expeditions related to English interests from the 17th century on. These volumes cover the early search for the North West Passage through Hudson Bay, which was determined not to lead to the Pacific Ocean.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket As New octavo xv + 139pp., col. frontis., maps, appends., bibliog., indexes, Hakluyt Society Series III. Volume 5. A very fine copy.

Condizione sovraccoperta: dj. First Edition. Octavo (25.5cm). Blue cloth, gilt-stamped, in blue dust jacket; [xvi],139pp; color frontispiece, black and white plates and maps. Straight and sound, with minor spotting to cloth and top edge: Very Good. Jacket lightly rubbed, lightly spotted at spine and flap folds: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. Series III, Volume 5. gilt dec. bleu cloth, gilt spine, pp., xv,139, illustrated, port. frontis., one pp facsimile, 7 full page maps, 8 pp bibliography, index. This edition offers for the first time an English translation of those parts of Van den Broecke's original manuscript which describe the four trading voyages he made to Africa in the early seventeenth century. Size: 8 Vo., Book.