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Series II, Volume CXXI. Issued for 1961. 8vo; original blue cloth gilt; pp. xxxvi + 464, incl. index; tables; diagrams; monochrome plates, some folding. Spine gilt dull; fore-edge of upper board very slightly damp-stained; endpapers foxed; sporadic light foxing; pages unopened. Good to very good condition. "William Bourne, of Gravesend, by trade a gunner, was a successful writer of a new type of textbook. Neither a scholar nor of gentle birth, both of which were regarded as the prerequisites of authorship in the sixteenth century, when scientific books were expected to appear only in universities and to be read only by those fluent in Latin, Bourne nevertheless produced a whole series of technical manuals, written in English for the artisans and craftsmen of his own class. A Regiment for the Sea, which forms the core of the volume, is perhaps the earliest technical manual written by an Englishman. It is not simply his rules for navigation, for Bourne wrote much as he spoke, so that out of this instruction book for sailors a clear picture of the man himself emerges: serious, reliable, patriotic and with this inborn impulse to pass on his knowledge to others. The first edition of 1574 is printed here in full, with the additional material which was added to the 1580 edition. Professor Taylor has also included to Almanackes. She has written an introductory section to each text, and in her General Introduction she fills in the details of Bourne's life and discusses his various writings. There is a full Bibliography.".…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Good hardback copy. No dustjacket. lvii, 333pp, b/w plates.

Zustand: Good. Original blind stamped and gilt decorated blue cloth, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, some b/w illustrations, 8vo. The Hakluyt Society: Second Series: No. CXIII.

8vo; pp. xxxv, 464; frontispiece, 15 illustrations, appendix, index;, original blue cloth with gilt title on spine, gilt illustration on front board, a very good copy. . Hakluyt Society, Second Series, Volume CXXI.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: VG. Volume 121.

1959. (Cloth) Near fine in very good plus dust jacket. 333pp. Frontispiece, illus., maps - plates. Unopened. SECOND SERIES, No. CXIII. Narratives and Documents.

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.

1932. (Cloth) Near fine. 210pp. Frontispiece, folding map. Minor foxing to prelims. Second Series, No.LXIX.

and other writings on navigation by William Bourne of Gravesend, a gunner (c. 1535-1582). The Hakluyt Society, Second Series. No. CXXI. Frontispiece, illustrations, folding map. 8vo. Gilt blue cloth with slightly worn dust jacket. Uncut. Cambridge, University Press.

The Hakluyt Society, Second Series. No. CXXI. One folding map and numerous plates throughout. 8vo. Original blue cloth, gilt, with dust-jacket (slightly worn). Uncut. xxxv, 464pp. Cambridge, Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press.

The Hakluyt Society, Second Series. No. CXIII. Frontispiece portrait, a few other maps and plates. Original gilt blue cloth with dust-jacket (some wear and smudges). Cambridge, Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press.

The Hakluyt Society, Second Series. No. LXXVI. Reprint. Two volumes in one. Frontispiece, maps and plates, some folding. 8vo. Hardcover in blue cloth with gilt title on spine. xiv, 516pp. Nendeln, Kraus.