Edited by david b quinn (6 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition. Tall octavo. xxv, 195pp. Illustrated, including one folding map. Near fine in lightly worn and lightly spine-tanned, near fine jacket.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Contents: Reflections / D.B. Quinn -- The writings of D.B. Quinn -- Outthrust and Encounter / P.E.H. Hair -- Ethiopia and Europe, 1200-1650 / C.F. Beckingham -- The Portuguese in the Far East / Rebecca Catz -- Russian penetration into Siberia up to 1800 / Terence Armstrong -- Finding Columbus: implications of a newly-discovered text / David Henige -- Drake on the Pacific coast of North America / Norman J.W. Thrower -- The reluctant go-between: John Ley's survey of aboriginal settlement on the Guayana coastline / Joyce Lorimer -- Thevet and the English / P.E.H. Hair -- Anson at Canton, 1743 / Glyndwr Williams -- The New World and the Italian Renaissance / Cecil H. Clough. 348 p., ill. ; 21 cm. Slight shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.…

Hardback in Dust Wrapper. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good+. Condition Notes: Previous owners' name to the first blank; First edition (first printing). Hardback. Dust wrapper over blue boards with gilt titles to the spine; Measures 9½" x 6¼" (0.9 kg); pp (xxv) 195; Index; Contains: Black & white photographs; Fold-out maps; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #187547 ||. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. Sky blue cloth hardback book with lovely gilt ship design on front board, and gilt title impressions on the spine. Comes with nice, clean dust jacket. The book is in really good condition, normal wear, marks and tear apply consistent with use and age. Small speckles of foxing to top edge of endpapers, pen signature at top of first blank page. Printed in Great Britain at the University Press, Cambridge. 580 pages all intact, all pages, text, maps and illustrations are in really good, clean, readable order. Second series number 161, published by The Hakluyt Society in 1983, first edition. Fascinating history of The English New England Voyages, 1602-1698, well documented and really good read.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. hardback, folio, measuring 14" x 10", top leading corners of the boards are very lightly knocked to the tips, a very good tightly bound copy in a well preserved dust jacket, Inscribed by the editors on the front free endpaper to a previous owner, the British historian, Cecil Clough, Loosely inserted letter from the same to the editors. The remainder of the text is clean and unmarked, xxxi + 229pp. A heavy volume which may, if ordered from locations outside the United Kingdom, attract a request for additional postage. Signed by the editor(s).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. folio. 35cm, xxxi,229p., frontis plate illustration of the original edition, 3 plates, appendices, dark blue cloth, gilt spine titles, gilt cover ship vignette, a fine copy in near fine complete jacket (ewc). - Hakluyt Society, Extra Series Volume 45. The only extended original prose work in English by Hakluyt. 'It is the most elaborate and important prospectus for English colonisation in NorthAmerica to have been written in the sixteenth century.'. …