The English Circumnavigators: The Most Remarkable Voyages Round the World By English Sailors with a Preliminary Sketch of Their Lives and Discoveries.
Purves, David Laing (ed.)
Published by William P. Nimmo & Co., London, 1874
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1st ed., octavo, original decorated cloth boards, engraved frontis portraiits plate, illus vignette halftitle page, 4 folding maps, pp 831 plus publisher's catalogue. Last page from the table of contents has corner torn off. Waterstain to the edge of approx. first 70 pages. Convent school prize plate lightly tipped-in. Original backstrip professionally restored and laid down on new cloth. Good condition. Selections from the voyages of Drake, Dampier, Anon, Captain Cook. Seller Inventory # 101328
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Title: The English Circumnavigators: The Most ...
Publisher: William P. Nimmo & Co., London
Publication Date: 1874
Binding: Boards
Edition: 1st Edition.
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The English Circumnavigators: The most Remarkable Voyages Round the World by English Sailors with a Preliminary Sketch of their Lives and Discoveries
Published by
William P. Nimmo, London, 1878
Used
Hardcover
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
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Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). An anthology containing tales of the most remarkable circumnavigations by English sailors, illustrated with plates and maps. Edited with notes by David Laing Purves and R. Cochrane.Containing a series of stories from the most important voyages around the world including Drake's, Dampier's , Anson's, Cook's three voyages. With a preliminary sketch of their lives and discoveries.Illustrated with additional vignette title page as well as four folding coloured maps. Collated, bound without its frontispiece portraits of Drake, Dampier, Anson, and Cook. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally sound with shelf wear, bumped to head and tail of spine, back strip darkened. Internally, binding generally firm. Pages generally bright and clean. Very Good. book. Seller Inventory # 842A51
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The English Circumnavigators. The most remarkable voyages round the world by English sailors. With a preliminary sketch of their lives and discoveries.
Published by
William P. Nimmo, London and Edinburgh, 1874
Used
Hardcover
Seller: The Odd Book (ABAC, ILAB), Wolfville, NS, Canada
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leather. Condition: Very Good. 831 pages, with frontispiece, two title pages, and the four folding maps. Full leather with The Manchester Commercial Schools emblum on front panel and Christmas 1874 on rear. Edges and endpapers marbled. Light marginal foxing to frontis. and title pages; else clear. Text in double column. Binding is sound. Bookseller's small embossed blind stamp: J. Galt & Co., Manchester. Seller Inventory # Books012782
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