James D La Fleur (30 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition. A fine copy in a near fine DJ with some light sunfading to the spine , now protected in archival mylar. See my photos of the book you will receive, not stock photos. All books are wrapped in bubble wrap and shipped in a cardboard box. USPS…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. xv+139 pages with color frontispiece, 1 illustration, 7 maps, appendices, bibliography and indices. Small quarto (10" x 7") issued in original dark blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and pictorial representation of the ship Victoria blind stamped in gilt…

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. Hardback in Very Good+ condition with Very Good+ dust jacket. 1605-1612. 7 X 0.75 X 10 inches. 155 pages. Previous owner name onfront free endpaper - otherwise, interior is clean and unmarked. Tight binding, sharp corners, and only very mild shelf wear. Mylar protected dust jacket has a couple of very…

1st edition. 2000 1st edition translated by J.D. La Fleur; B&W maps and colour frontispiece; tightly bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and design to front. Dust jacket protected by removable clear film. A tiny sprinkle of pale foxing to top page fore-edge; otherwise, a clean, tidy copy. Used - Very Good. VG hardba…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hakluyt edition of the first English translation of Van den Broecke's account of his fifth voyage as a commercial agent for various Dutch companies who were then expanding their worldwide trading networks. Copy is in near fine condition. Appears unre…

hardback with dustjacket. In the summer of 1630, Pieter van den Broecke returned to Amsterdam after completing his fifth voyage overseas as a commercial agent for various Dutch companies who were then expanding their worldwide trading networks. Van den Broecke used this homecoming to compose a lengthy manuscript describing his e…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 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 an…

Cloth, Gilt Titles. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First English translation of those parts of Van den Broecke's original manuscript which describe four trading voyages made to Africa in the early seventeenth century. Edited and translated by J. D. La Fleur. Hakluyt Society, Third Series, No. 5. 139…

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Larger 8vo pp. xv, (1), 139, sketch maps, "In the summer of 1630, Pieter Van den Broecke returned to Amsterdam after completing his fifth voyage overseas as a commercial agent for various Dutch companies who were then expanding their worldwide trading networks. Van den Broe…

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - As most people in Atlantic-era West Africa--as in contemporary Europe and the Americas--were farmers, fields and gardens were the primary terrain where they engaged the opportunities and challenges of nascent globalization. Agricultural changes and culinary cross-currents from the Gold Coast indic…