Fairfield: Ye Galleon Press, 1972. 104pp. Quarto [25.5 cm] Publisher's green buckram with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Near fine. Illustrated endsheets and pastedowns. "This thrilling tale was compiled from the log-book of William S. Cary, of Nantucket, the sole survivor of the crew of..... More
London: The Hakluyt Society, 1979. First Edition. 206pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Blue cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Very good/Very good. Mild discoloring to the rear panel of the price-clipped jacket. The Hakluyt Society - Second Series: Volume 150. In May 1517, Luigi of Aragon, one of..... More
Portland: Western Imprints - The Press of the Oregon Historical Society, 1985. First Edition. 167pp. Quarto [26 cm] 1/2 red cloth over orange boards. Near fine/Near fine. Translated and annotated by Herbert K. Beals. "An English translation of the Diario of Bruno de Hezeta y Dudagoitia is long overdue. The..... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1955. First Edition. 198pp. Duodecimo [21 cm] Orange cloth. Very good/Very good. Price-clipped jacket shows minor age-toning to extremities. "The century 1550-1650 was the Age of Shipwreck for the Portuguese voyager who sailed the sea roads of the East, risking disaster and death for a...... More
London: The Hakluyt Society, 1981. First Edition. 326pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Blue cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Very good/Very good. The Hakluyt Society - Second Series: Volume 159. This book is the report of voyage in 1648 from the Arctic river, Kolyma, around a great rocky..... More
London: The Hakluyt Society, 1976. First Edition. 365pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Blue cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Very good/Very good. Price-clipped jacket. The Hakluyt Society - Second Series: Volume 147. Chronicling, in the main, the initial (albeit abortive) attempt to establish a spice trade in the..... More
Fairfield: Ye Galleon Press, 1988. 71pp. Quarto [26 cm] Light blue cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Very good. Map endsheets and pastedowns. "Though the following Voyage was chiefly undertaken from motives of curiosity by Mr. Cox, the fur trade in the North West..... More
New York: American Geographical Society, 1928. 289pp. Quarto [26 cm] Gray cloth with the title gilt on black labels on the front board and backstrip. Very good. "The history of Elizabethan expansion is to a great extant the work of Richard Hakluyt, to a greater extent perhaps than the record..... More
Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons, 1905-1907. 20 Volume Set. Octavos [23 cm] Blue cloth with gilt stamped titles on backstrip and gilt device to front boards. Top edge gilt. Bookplate (or faint glue residue from) on front pastedown. All volumes near fine. Nice clean set. Illustrated with maps throughout. Handsome..... More
San Francisco: David Magee, 1957. Limited Edition. 42pp. Small octavo [23 cm] Red cloth with the title gilt on the backstrip. Very good. Prospectus laid in. "It is generally agreed by the authorities, from Kippis, who wrote the first life of Captain Cook, to Sir Maurice Holmes, who contributes so..... More
Winnipeg: Hudson's Bay Record Company, 1973. First Edition. 212pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Black cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Very good/Very good. A few small pieces of tape on the reverse of the jacket. Publications of Hudson's Bay Record Society Volume XXIX. All fold-outs present. "The volume..... More
London: The Hakluyt Society, 1981. First Edition. 310pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Blue cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Very good/Very good. The Hakluyt Society - Second Series: Volume 158. The St. Jean-Baptiste expedition sailed at a crucial time in Pacific exploration. The voyages of Bougainville and Wallis..... More
London: The Argonaut Press, 1930. Limited Edition. 142pp. Quarto [26 cm] 1/2 white vellum over orange boards with title and rules gilt stamped on the backstrip. Better than very good. Nicely produced work on the Spanish exploration of the Strait of Juan de Fuca in the 18th century. Complete with..... More
Winnipeg: Hudson's Bay Record Company, 1975. First Edition. 245pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Black cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Very good/Very good. Publications of Hudson's Bay Record Society Volume XXX. All fold-outs present. "The present General Editor was very conscious that Volume XXX should, in some way..... More