Spanish Armada (20 results)

Condition: Very Good. 33 pages, illustrated with coloured photographs. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 16 x 24 cms. Category: National Geographic Magazine; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: Very Good. 6 pages, illustrated. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: A4 Size. Category: BBC History Magazine; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: Very Good. 10 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 17 x 24 cms. Category: Mariner's Mirror; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: Very Good. 11 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 17 x 24 cms. Category: Mariner's Mirror; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: Very Good. 19 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 19 x 25 cms. Category: Society for Army Historical Research; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: Very Good. 7 pages, illustrated. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 17.5 x 24 cms. Category: History Today; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Unframed Print. Condition: Very Good. An original Woodcut engraving, especially commissioned for the uncommon Penny Magazine. There is no accompanying text. Size: Image 15 x 21 cms. Category: Penny Magazine; PRINTS : Historic News; New Arrivals; Vintage Prints. Cosmo Books : 28 years selling on ABE; 28 years of taking care of customers on ABE; A seller you can rely on. …

Condition: Very Good. 39 Pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 16 x 24 cms. Category: Edinburgh Review; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: Very Good. 4 pages, illustrated. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: Quarto. Category: The Connoisseur; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: Very Good. 24 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 13 x 22 cms. Category: Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: Very Good. 6 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 25 x 30 cms. Category: Archaeologia; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: Very Good. 4 pages + 1 plate, considerable foxing. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 25 x 30 cms. Category: Archaeologia; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Card Covers. Condition: Very Good. 19 pages. Some foxing. This is an original article separated from The Harleian Miscellany: A Collection of Scarce, Curious, & Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, as well in Manuscript as in Print. Selected from the Library of Edward Harley, Second Earl of Oxford, and there is no separate title page. From the usual ravages of time and accident, upon the productions of pamphleteers, the Harleian Collection has, in numerous instances, become the only existing chronicle of many important particulars. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 13 x 21.5 cms. Category: Harleian Miscellany; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. …

Card Covers. Condition: Very Good. 13 pages. This is an original article separated from The Harleian Miscellany: A Collection of Scarce, Curious, & Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, as well in Manuscript as in Print. Selected from the Library of Edward Harley, Second Earl of Oxford, and there is no separate title page. From the usual ravages of time and accident, upon the productions of pamphleteers, the Harleian Collection has, in numerous instances, become the only existing chronicle of many important particulars. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 13 x 21.5 cms. Category: Harleian Miscellany; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.…

Small 4to, pp [2], 35, [1, adverts], title in red and black, engraved frontispiece [infolded], disbound in later wrappers, a very good copy, FIRST SMEETON EDITION, a useful reprint, albeit unscholarly, if only for the fine engraved frontispiece that accompanies this printing.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. An attractive original antique hand coloured engraving . Mounted - matted - and ready to frame . Colouring not contemporary but delicately and expertly executed . Very good condition and somewhat uncommon . Shows a fine seascape - battle scene - the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588. Wale (illustrator).…

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. A splendid original antique engraving. Mounted - matted - and ready to frame. Excelleny condition. Circa 1860. Hand colouring not contemporary - but delicately and expertly executed. A stirring battle scene - the Battle of the Armada.

Condition: leido. Los naufragos de la Armada invencible (Spanish Edition) Gonzaez-Arnao Conde-Luque, Mariano. Publicado por Direccio de Relaciones Exteriores, Ente Publico RTVE, Servicio de Publicaciones, Madrid, 1988 firma.

Boards. Condition: Good. None. Translated from the original Spanish by Henry Dwight Sedgwick, Jr. Spanish Armada Tracts No.1. Printed at New York. Pale blue boards with gilt depiction of ship on front and back covers. 109 pages. Top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed. 1911 Christmas presentation inscription on front pastedown and signature of recipient on front endpaper. Small loss to head of spine. Spotting to covers and untrimmed edges are dust-marked. Nevertheless, SCARCE.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Folio. [4]f including half title, engraved title within allegorical border, full-page arms on verso, full-page engraved portrait of Prince Maurice +256p. Text in 2 columns. 42 engraved plates (41 double-page, 1 folding). Contemporary vellum;morocco label on spine. First edition in German of this extensively illustrated survey of Dutch military exploits on land and sea under the leadership of Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange (1567-1625) during the Dutch war of independence from Spain. (The Dutch original was published in 1610). The events here described and illustrated include the Dutch share in the destruction of the Spanish armada in 1588 (pp46-67), the expedition sent to Nova Zembla and to the East Indies in 1594-5, the Anglo-Dutch naval expedition to Cadiz under Henry Howard Duke of Norfolk, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Prince Maurice in 1596, the Dutch expedition against Spain and the Canary Islands under Admiral Pierre vander Does in 1599, the Dutch blockade of the Flemish coast by a gigantic fleet of 2800 vessels in July 1600 against the Spaniards, a sea fight between the Dutch and Portuguese off Bantam in 1601, and an account of the naval battle off Gibraltar between the Dutch and Spaniards in 1607. The finely engraved plates, executed in the best tradition of Dutch art of the period, depict battles, sieges, naval engagements, military plans and maps. The frontispiece bears the initials 'L. G.', a campaign map of 1602 is signed Floris Balthasar, the other plates are unidentified. Orlers (1570-1646), was a printer and local historian at Leiden, who later became mayor of the city. The dedication is to Frederick V, Prince Palatine, son in law of Charles I of England and champion of German Protestants who later accepted the crown of Bohemia and lost his throne as 'winter king'. Right blank margin of title shaved, otherwise a very good copy with contemporary manuscript ownership entry by Eberhard Klenck, dated 1613, in blank tailend title margin; a slightly later entry inside front cover by Leopold Kleuken, dated 3 February 1657. Holzmann Bohatta 6058a; Cockle, no 83 (note to the English edition of 1620 : 'This work is of very great interest. The English volunteers in the service of the States General play no inconsiderable part in the history'.…