Norman J W Thrower Editor (20 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Issued. First Edition. Edited by Norman J.W. Thrower. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978. First Edition. 8vo. xvii,241pp, Index. Cloth, very good plus condition, unworn, few minor spots, no dj as issued. Several illustrations. ISBN 0520035224; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 241 pages.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 241pp. Tan cloth hardback, no DJ, VG, top corner of front end page clipped, light brown foxing spots on outer pages, index, chapter notes, footnotes, maps, illustrations, THE COMPLEAT PLATTMAKER : Essays on Chart, Map, and Globe Making in England in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.…

Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. Three fold-out charts in Hardcover portfolio. In protective mylar cover. (travel, voyages, exploration, astronomy) A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A collection of scholarly essays commemorating the quadricentennial of Drake's circumnavigation of the Earth. Profusely Illustrated and a fold-out map. Over Sized.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. Inscribed First Edition of this collection of essays that examine aspects of Sir Francis Drake's circumnavigation in the period 1577-1580. Inscribed by editor Norman J.W. Thrower to a previous owner on the front endpaper. 214 pages, illustrated. Has a bit of foxing on the top page edge and edge wear on the dust jacket. Signed by Author(s).…

1st edition. 8vo. 392pp. B/w. illustrations. Original light blue cloth. Navy d/w. with light green title patch to upper wrapp. and to spine, rubbed to edges, spine slightly faded. Second series No.156.Ex-libris Andrew David. ISBN 0904180026 US$15.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No dustjacket. Volume 156. Hint of bumping to spine.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. University of California Press hardcover in dust jacket, 1990, 1st edition/1st printing, unused and carefully stored, No remainder marks/tears or other defects; (as New/as New). We will add a custom fitted mylar cover, bubble wrap the book and ship it in a New BOX- Not a plastic bag like the zombie sellers.…

Hardcover. 392p., maps (folded, smallish) and illustrations as called for, with pocketed maps (all three, folded, large) in a separate binding, each casebound item Hakluyt-style: medium-blue cloth boards gilt and blind, in dust jacket. Corner-tips slightly turned, light foxing to top edge of textblock, and rolling to the slim spine of the "portfolio", these the sole and only flaws we see, pace a minute ding to the margin of one of the large charts, and mild edgewear to dust jackets. The pair, very good to near fine. Second series nos. 156, 157. FYI, "The journal of the third voyage is here published for the first time. The work also contains well over one hundred documents relating to the voyages, many published for the first time".…

Cloth. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. 241 pgs. b/w illustrs. A fine unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1st Printing. 1981. 2 volumes complete. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Has bookplate. 392 pages. Second volume has maps only. 6204.

Volume 157 Second Series. Vol. II: 3 folded charts in portfolio. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Near fine. 22.5 x 14. Halley's first two voyages were to test his geomagnetical theories and the third voyage to investigate tidal phenomena.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Black and white illustrations, color fold-out map. First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good ++. No Jacket. First Edition. SUBTITLED : ` Essays on Chart, Map, and Globe Making in England in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries '. The preface to this 241 page account, - INDEX at back - notes that the contributions to cartography by Edmund Halley are oft overlooked. LEARN more about : track chart, Maldive Islands, Sunda-Cape run, Drapers Company, Goulden Gunn, limning, engraving, loadstone, Thames-side parishes, Gregory King, and Mlle Myriem Foncin. Well illustrated with `antique' maps. Boards are buckslin in colour with black lettering. Blue end-papers. No dust jacket - as issued (??). Volume is tight, bright, square, and clean. Collectible with v. minor points of wear and soil. QUote (p. 65) : " ' Though the chart looks unfinished it was probably designed specifically to show only those coasts that would be seen by a ship on passage from England to Narva in the Gulf of Finland ._ ' The shape of the vellum and the layout and form of the ._._._. . " Size: Octavo. B/W Maps (illustrator).…

First edition. 8vo. 2 volumes. v1: 392 pp. Illustrations. v2: 3 foldout maps in portfolio. Cloth bindings in dustwrappers, very good set (93366).

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 260 pages. 9.21x6.14x0.59 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 260 pages. 9.21x6.14x0.80 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition 8vo in 2 volumes, number 156, Second Series.Minimal wear to unclipped jackets, good blue boards with gilt vignette, sound bindings, good fold-outs, 3 maps in vol 2 portfolio ( Halley's Atlantic chart, Halley's Channel chart x2, all facsimiles) all in excellent condition , as is vol 1. The weight being 1.1kg, extra shipping may be requested to post out of UK. …

The Hakluyt Society, second series. No. 156. Volumes I-II (II comprising three folding maps). Frontispiece portrait, other illustrations. 8vo. Original uniform pictorial cloth, gilt, with dustwrapper. London, Hakluyt Society.

The Hakluyt Society, Second Series. Nos. 156-7. Volumes I-II. Frontispiece portrait to volume I, several other plates; volume II comprises three folding maps. 8vo. Original uniform gilt blue cloth, with dust-jackets, some light wear. London, Hakluyt Society.