Hackluyt richard (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First Edition Thus. 1993. xxxi + 229pp. The text is presented in facsimile with a parallel modern script on the page facing together with a detailed Commentary. The most elaborate and important prospectus for English Colonisation in North America to have been written in the sixteenth century. It was a confidential state paper presented to Queen Elizabeth the First in October 1584 (Old Style) . The present text is one of the very few copies to have survived. It is now in the possesion of the New York Public Library. Hakluyt Society, Extra Series Volume 45. Published at £95. PLEASE NOTE: Heavy book so extra may be needed for non-UK customers.…

Unbound. Zustand: Near Fine. Ten unbound, untrimmed, and unopened signatures. Octavo. 132pp. Reprint of the 1609 edition, issued as Force's Collection of Historical Tracts, Vol. IV, No. 1. Small stains on the margins, chip on the margin of the first leaf, else near fine. Issued unbound.

London, Hakluyt Society, 1993. Folio. Orig. full cloth with dustjacket. XXXI,229 pp.