Translated by Jane Cecil (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. New York, 1960; burgundy cloth covered boards; spine edges bumped; illustrated jacket with corner wear and spine edges chipped; 8vo, 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; interior is clean and unmarked; 227 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Illustrated. Price clipped, DJ nicely in archival wraps with moderate wear to the edges; pages dusty with light age toning; interior otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Thus. New translation 1960, first thus. Published by Clarkson N. Potter. Hardcover in full blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine with DJ. Condition near fine, square and right book, slight edgewear on covers, corners not bumped, no names, no underlinings, no highlights, no bent page corners, paper slightly age toned, not a reminder. DJ very good with edgewear and some chips at extremities, some repaired tears, price clipped. 4to, XXIII + 227 pages ninety color and b/w illustrations from prints and maps , plus 10 b/w plates at the end of the book. ASIN B009ENH1FQ.…

xxiii[i], 227[1] pp, numerous coloured and black & white plates, occasional text illustrations. Original navy cloth gilt, dustwrapper. 25 cm x 18 cm. Dustwrapper slightly soiled.

Condition: Good. Book is in good condition. Foxing along intro pages, and some pages in the back. Text is clean. Tigh spine. Dust jacket, with small nicks on spine area.

Condition: Very Good. First edition thus. Hardback. Large octavo. xxiii, 227pp. Original blue cloth with gilt spine titles and gilt ship motif to front. Covers with some fading/ discolouration to spine, edges and fore-edge, slight scattered foxing to contents, mainly around top edge, otherwise very good. No jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Large 8vo. Pp xivi, 142, 1-page publishers catalogue. Folding frontis and 1 folding map and 5 further illustrations. Printed on Japon Velum. Quarter velum; slightly discoloured (as often); corners slightly bumped. Stamped gilt. Light darkening to panels. Internally clean and sound. No. 144 of 525 printed. …

First English edition, first printing. Signed by the editor. Numbered 282 of of 525 limited copies. Original quarter vellum with orange cloth-covered boards, titles in gilt to the spine and a gilt motif to the upper board. Illustrated in black and white with a fold-out map, a fold-out frontispiece, and five further illustrations. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, the velum and cloth with some light discolouration, the edges a little rubbed and a slight bump to the bottom corner of the lower board. Without the silk page marker. The contents, with some offsetting and spotting to the endpapers, are otherwise clean throughout. Signed by N. M. Penzer in black ink on the half title. The first English translation of an anonymous account of a Spanish 1792 expedition to what is now British Columbia, describing the geography, flora, fauna and the indigenous people that they came across, as well as an encounter with an English expedition led by George Vancouver. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. …

London: The Argonaut Press, 1930. 4to. Orig. cloth and quarter japon vellum (foxing on back cover). Gilt titling to spine. (xiv, 142pp.). With a folding map, 6 illustrations, folding frontispiece and title-page vignette. Pages uncut. Limited edition of 525 copies, this being Number 113. Toning on end-papers, otherwise a fine copy.…