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Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

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PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

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Full Leather Hard Back. Condizione: Good. blank + i + Title page + blank + iv + 175 pages + Blank + 14 page indexes + blank + errata + blank with old manuscript notes on this book. Antique full leather binding fair, some rubbing, spine with embossed leather title "Blounts Ant Tenures", covers hanging on by a little leather/mostly cord. Contents mostly very good, clean & tight, a few pages with minor foxing or minor stain, page 5 with a little loss base/corner (not near text), minimal foxing to endpage front/rear from when originally bound, only inscription noted was to rear blank page. Inside cover & opposite endpage are 2 decorative owner bookplates Simon Stephenson F.L.S with his coat of arms & opposite F. Arthur Wadsworth with his coat of arms. This is a very rare early tome on land tenures, manors and their customs. Thomas Blount, 1618-1679. Size: 11 x 18cm. Approx.

Folio, pp.[16], 242, [2, blank], 243505, [1], 506643, [12], 644825, [12], with the folding world map (333 x 485mm, 'Typus Orbis Terrarum', after Ortelius (Shirley 167), often lacking, here washed and remounted), the medial blank X4 and the terminal blank 4F4.and the six unpaginated 'Drake leaves' (not always present); Bowes leaves in the first state (headed 'The Ambassage of SirHierome Bowes to the Emperour of Moscovie 1583', paginated 491505); short tear to foot of R1 neatly repaired, small rusthole in Ll23, else a fine, crisp copy recased in its original, strictly contemporary London binding of roll-tooled calf over wooden boards (heads in wreaths and a capstan, not in Oldham), clasps repaired using the original metalwork, spine dry and with some restoration, some wormholes to rear cover, new endpapers; crimson morocco pull-off box.First edition, a fine copy, with the world map, in a strictly contemporary London binding, of the first collection of English voyages. 'Richard Hakluyt's collection of voyages is one of the more famous works of Elizabethan history and literature, but it is generally known and read in the three-volume edition, The principal navigations, of 15981600 To get the freshest flavour from Hakluyt it is necessary to go to The principall navigations (distinguished conveniently by the doubled l of the second word in the title) of 1589. The narratives are nearer to the events they describe, some of them being tumbled in while the book was in the press, and Hakluyt set them out in a way which makes many of them more vivid and effective than after they had been sifted, scrubbed or pruned for the second edition . The main bulk of the English voyages made in the early and middle parts of the Elizabethan period is already there, sometimes in versions of which this first edition is the only extant record. The first edition shows how Hakluyt went to work and it represents his original purposes in setting out a great, comprehensive collection on English achievements overseas' (Burns). The world map combines several of Ortelius's maps, with the central oval taken from his third world map of 1587, and the cloud border from earlier plates. It was later re-used in the 1598 English translation of Linschoten's Voyages. The present copy, with its few and minor faults, is in our opinion one of the best likely to appear on the market. The text, which is fresh and clean, includes the six 'Drake leaves' following p.643, giving the earliest printed narrative of Drake's celebrated circumnavigation (157780), and has the 'Bowes leaves' in their first state (pp.491501). These bibliographical points are best explained by Quinn: 'after the book was complete and printed off two events took place which were to alter the form of surviving copies. In the first place permission was received to print an account of Drake's circumnavigation. Hakluyt had indeed begun to prepare such an account but withdrew it so as not to prejudice a collection of Drake's voyages which was in preparation. Permission now came to insert it, not improbably from Drake himself. Accordingly Hakluyt, or one of his assistants, pared down the available materials had them printed on the same paper and in the same type as the rest of the book, and sent them out with most of the copies sold. It would appear that some few copies were issued without the Drake leaves, and that then a certain number were issued with the Drake leaves and without any other changes [as in the present copy]. At that point a further alteration took place: the leaves containing SirJerome Bowes's report of his Russian embassy in 15834 were cancelled', possibly at the instigation of the Russia Company. 'In any event, a more discreet and shorter version of Bowes's narrative was prepared: "printed this second time, according to the true copie I received of a gentleman that went on the same voyage, for the correction of the errours in the former impression", as Hakluyt says'. Quinn also notes that only about 'one copy in three of the surviving examples contains the map'. The current Hakluyt census (which does not record this copy), notes only six copies in contemporary calf in this, the most ideal state, with the world map, the Drake leaves, and the first state of the Bowes leaves: Yale (Taylor 188); YCBA (the Mellon copy); Newberry (Drake leaves supplied); Detroit Public Library; Philadelphia Library Company (Drake leaves probably supplied); and the Streeter copy (sale of 20 October 1970). The Streeter copy is the only comparable copy to have sold at auction this century ($380,000 in 2007). ESTC S106735; STC 12625; Alden 589/31; Church 139139A; Quinn, pp.474? ?89. Language: English.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Eat Pasta, Run Fasta | Christopher George | Buch | Englisch | 2023 | Christopher George | EAN 9798218296902 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.