Markham Sir Clements Translated (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Dust Jacket. 106 pages. Ex-university library marks, some soiling to the covers; cracked hinges; pages toned; a decent reading copy still. No jacket. Title page says "With a notice of the Mendoza family, a short life of the author, Don Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, a notice of the work and some remarks on the character of Lazarillo de Tormes." Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Inventory No: 217602.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No dustjacket as issued. First Edition. Shelf wear to binding around edges. Top edge gilt lightly scratched. Foxing on pages throughout. Folding map tipped in at rear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. Early Spanish Voyages to the Strait of Magellan Second Series - No. XXVIII. Reprint of the original that was published in 1911. Very Good+ Condition. No dust jacket. No marks on the text block. Front free end paper has some light pencil indents from previous owner that were erased.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 288 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Firmly bound cream cloth boards, with some very faint dust marks, no writing inside. Stephen Baghot De La Bere (illustrator).

hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo, i-lx, 247 pp, folding map. Standard Hakluyt Society blue cloth with gilt emblem on the front board. Very mild toning to the text but an excellent bright copy of the original printing. Book plate of Captain Richard Campbell on the front free end paper and an earlier book plate on the front paste down.…

Hardcover. Condition: g+ to vg. First edition. Quarto. XII, 212, XXXVIpp. Uncut and unopened copy. Original gilt-, and blind-stamped blue cloth, with gold lettering on spine. This remarkable volume is mostly a translation of the third book (1543-44) of Cieza's "Civil Wars of Peru," translated and edited by Sir Clements R. Markham. The additional documents continue the narrative to c. 1568. For other sections of the same source, in volumes variously titled, see Second Series 42 and 54. Contents: Introduction; "The War of Quito," by Pedro de Cieza de León (LIII chapter), with notes; "Letter from the Bishop of Cuzco to the King"; "Indictment of the judges against the viceroy"; "Sequel"; "Letter from Carbajal to Gonzalo Pizzaro"; "Gasca's voyage"; "Murder of the Inca Manco narrated by his son"; "Mission of Figueroa to the Inca"; "Note on Molina"; Index. Minor shelf wear and staining to spine. Offsetting to endpapers. Binding in overall good+, interior in very good condition.…

Gilt Decorated Cloth. Condition: VG+. First Thus. First complete English Edition, Hakluyt Society Second Series, XIV and XV; 2 volumes, 8vos (22.5 x 15 cm); 3 large colour folding maps in rear pocket. Pedro Fernández de Quirós (1563 1614) was a Portuguese navigator in the service of Spain. He is best known for leading several Spanish voyages of discovery in the Pacific Ocean, in particular the 1595 1596 voyage of Álvaro de Mendaña y Neira intending to colonize the Solomon Islands, and for the 1605 1606 expedition that crossed the Pacific in search of Terra Australis. Scarce and in nice condition. Extra Postage for International. Maps (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 8vo, i-xii, 288 pp, 3 maps, 9 illustrations. Standard Hakluyt binding with the Society's gilt stamp on the front board, light toning to the end papers but an excellent bright copy. Book plate of the late Captain Richard Campbell on the front free end paper, himself an editor of several Hakluyt Society titles.…

Hardcover. Condition: g+ to vg. First edition. Quarto. [12], XXVI, [2], 221, [1]pp. Uncut and unopened copy! Original gilt-, and blind-stamped blue cloth, with gold lettering on spine. Tissue-guarded frontispiece. Decorative head-, tailpieces and initials. Alonso de Espinosa was a Spanish priest and historian of the sixteenth century, and also the first official historian of the island of Tenerife. Little is known of his early life. He is first heard of towards the end of the 16th century in Guatemala where he had become a Dominican. It was while he was in Central America that he first heard of the reported miracles of Our Lady of Candelaria, an image of the Virgin and Child that had been among the Guanches of Tenerife since long before their conversion to Christianity, and had been venerated not only by the Guanches, but later by their conquerors, the Spanish. Inspired by the fame of this image, Espinosa resolved to research and write a history of the image and its miracles. The result was his "Guanches of Tenerife," originally published in Seville in 1594. Although the author's main purpose was to record the history of Our Lady of Candelaria, the work is also a captivating account of the Guanches; he also gives a good account of the conquest and settlement of the Canary Islands by the Spanish. He divides his work into four books, in the first of which he describes the island of Tenerife, gives its early history, and an account of its inhabitants, their customs, food and dress, marriages, training for war, and mode of interment. The second book gives a detailed history of the image, from its mysterious appearance, on the east coast of the island, to Espinosa's own time. The third book is devoted to the invasion, conquest, and settlement of the island by the Spanish. The fourth and last book contains an enumeration of various cures and other alleged miracles performed by the image. This work is complete with its plates and folded maps. Minor shelf wear. Front corners slightly bumped (not affecting pages). Binding in overall good+, interior in very good condition.…