Sir Walter Ralegh Edited Harlow (4 results)

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint. hardback in full brown leather. 182 a facsimile edition of the 1928 original. Fine without any faults.

[90-6072-111-X] [1971]. (4to) Near fine. Issued without dust jacket. cvi, 182pp. Tan leatherette. Facsimile of the London 1928 edition. Portrait & 2 folding maps. Edited by V.t. Harlow. Publisher series: Argonaut Press 5. Locale: Guiana. (Voyages/Travels/Exploration, Voyages and Travels--Caribbean).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. First printing, this limited edition of 975 copies, of which this is no. 564. Pp. cvi, 182, frontis port. with tissue guard, many plates, illustrations, one large folding map, appendices, index, ribbon page marker, 4to format, vellum spine with gilt titles, tan cloth boards with gilt decoration, fore-edges untrimmed. A Very Good copy with previous owner's signature and date (1929), small bookplate, few other numbers, few minor ink marks to contents. Modest sign of removal of label or pocket from rear free endpaper. Very light wear, firm binding, covers and contents very fresh oveall with minor wear to covers.

Frontispiece portrait, 2 folding maps (illustrator). A superb edition of Sir Walter Ralegh's Guiana expedition in search of the golden city of El Dorado. Appendices A and B contain Spanish official dispatches that had not seen the light of day for 300 years, and which make it possible to compare Ralegh's own account of the 1595 expedition with the narratives of contemporary Spaniards actually on the ground. This copy previously owned by Lytton Strachey, noted literary critic and founding member of the Bloomsbury Group, with his bookplate on front pastedown. Bound in tan cloth over boards with vellum spine, integral ribbon bookmark. Ralegh's coat of arms stamped in gilt on upper board, spine titled in gilt. Some spotting at lower fore corners of both boards and at bottom of lower board near spine. Old dampstain at bottom inner corners of rear endpapers. Later owner bookplate on front pastedown below Strachey's. Hinges sound. Very good overall. Hardcover. Quarto. cvi, 182 pages Limited edition of 975 copies, this copy not numbered.