Lithgow William Editor Phelps Gilbert (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Thus. First Folio Society edition, first printing. 292pp, with illustrated frontispiece and occasional illustrations in text. Green boards with gilt decorations front and spine, gilt titles on spine. Colour illustrated endpapers. Top edge sprayed brown. Boards very slightly pushed at spine ends, hint of spotting on fore edge, else volume is neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. Housed in its slipcase, shelf worn, rubbed on corners, with a little cracking in paper along edges. …

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Folio Society Edition. 290pp, bw ills, col endpaper maps. Or green and gilt cloth lacking slipcase. Some minor foxing to page edges. Over 3 journeys in the 1600s Lithgow travelled through most of Europe, the Middle East and Holy Land, North Africa (including Morocco, Egypt and Libya). A shotened account of his first 'peregrination' was published in 1614, and a selection of his travels were published in Hakluyts Posthumus of 1625. Not until 1632 was the first full version published. As well as fascinating accounts of travel he tells of his capture and torment by the Spanish at Malaga under the Inquisition. Size: 8vo.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 290 pages illustrations, facsimiles, maps (on lining papers) : 22 cm. Issues in a slip case. Illustrations are reproduced from the first edition of 1632.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. An early 'travel' book. Beginning his travels in the Orkney and Shetland Islands of Scotland, Lithgow soon went off to explore the Netherlands, Germany, Bohemia, France, and Italy. He then traveled throughout Greece, Egypt, and Malta before having a spin through Western Europe again and finally returning to Great Britain. With illustrations&maps & an 'introduction' by the editor. / This is a cloth-bound 'reprinted' hardback with its slip-case in good condition-the slip case is faded, otherwise the book is in fine condition. (290 pages). Originally published 1632.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. A splendid Folio First Edition of a book worth knowing. Clean and tight, this looks new and unread and the specially made slipcase is sturdy. Acid proof paper and the usual high standards of sewn binding and elegant typography; an exemplary presentation of a fascinating book of its time.…