William Bourne E G R Taylor Editor (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. FIRST EDITION THUS: Works issued by the Hakluyt Society, 2d series., No. 121. The book is tight and square, covers are bright, tad duty to base of the text block, not affecting the facing pages. The book is perfectly sound. While the dust jacket is complete, there is tone to the extremities, and it is lightly rubbed at the edges. The spine is also with toning. xxxv, 464 pages : illustrations, plates, portraits, charts, facsimiles, tables ; 23 cm Contents : I. An almanacke and prognostication for three yeares . nowe newlye added unto my late rulles of navigation, 1571 ; II. A regiment for the sea, 1574 III. A regiment for the sea, 1580 ; IV. An almanacke & ; prognostication for x. yeeres, 1581 ; Appendixes: A. 'Canon gubernauticus', by John Dee, 1558 ; B. The wills of William Bourne (1573), and Dorothy Bourne (1582) ; C. The writings of William Bourne, c. 1565-1581: a bibliography. [NM/SMJ][384AP].…

1963. (Cloth) Near fine in near fine dust jacket. 464pp. Frontispiece, illus., ports., maps (including fold-out). Unopened. ". Of Gravesend, a gunner (c.1535-1582)". Second Series, No.CXXI.