Francois Valentijn's Description of Ceylon. (Second Series, Volume 149).
London. The Hakluyt Society. 1978. Hardcover. 21.5cm, xv,395p., 12 illustrations, 7 maps, index, blue cloth, gilt & cover logos, armorial bookplate, fine in fine jacket. (Tr).
London. The Hakluyt Society. 1978. Hardcover. 21.5cm, xv,395p., 12 illustrations, 7 maps, index, blue cloth, gilt & cover logos, armorial bookplate, fine in fine jacket. (Tr).
London. James Parker and Co. 1904. 1904. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, 22.5cm, first edition, xii,89p., frontis, quarter white cloth backed blue paper over boards, paper label, spine dust worn soiled, scattered foxing, good to very good (lds).
London. Kegan Paul, Trench,Trubner & Ltd. 1903. Hardcover. 24mo. 15cm, 77,2p., rear ads., rubricatedtitle-page, original green cloth, blind decorated boards, gilt spine andupper cover titles, t.e.g., a fine copy (lt).
Maryland. Heritage Books Inc. 1998. 21.5cm, 222p., very good to fine (cmt).
Edinburgh. Printed for A. Kincaid and W. Creech. 1773. 14.5cm, 199pp., , in full contemporary calf, triple crushed morocco spine labels, ink inscription on the rear endpaper, bookplate, a very good to fine copy. (Lt).
Hamburg. Hans Christians Druckerei. 1962. Soft cover. Sm. 4to. 25.5cm, unpaginated, 7 black & white plates, stiff card covers,in blue wrappers, spine sunned else fine. Inscribed by translator. .(agc) Translated by Canadian artist, Naomi Jackson Groves, niece of A.Y.Jackson. During 1962-64 part of her collection of Barlach woodcuts andlithographs were.....
A Londres. [Paris?]. 1755. Hardcover. 16.5cm, 164p., in full contemporary mottled calf, gilt ruled raised bands, gilt flora panel decorations and borders, crimson leather label, library stamp on the tiltle page, else in fine condition, rare. (cgc) T.P.L. 211. (cf 210). Lande 445. Sabin 56137, Dionne II-471. Waldon. Biblio. Canadiana.....
New York. Stringer & Townsend. Nd. [1854]. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 4to. 29cm, v,196p., plus 54 primarily double-page tipped-in engraved plates (2 in colour), numerous text illustrations, figures, tables, in contemporary half calf, wide blind ruled raised bands, dark crimson leather label, gilt titles, cross-grain brown cloth boards, Nonpareil marbled.....
London. The Hakluyt Society. 2000. Hardcover. 24.5cm, xv,139p., colour frontis portrait, illustration, 7 maps, index, bibliography, blue cloth, a fine copy in fine jacket. (Tr).
London. The Hakluyt Society. 1984. 1984. Hardcover. 21.5cm, xxxvi,417p., 9 illustrations, 4 maps, bibliography, index, blue cloth, gilt & cover logos, fine in fine jacket (s15).
Boston. T.O. H.P. Burnham. 1861. Hardcover. 8vo, 22cm, new edition, xxxviii,154p., engraved frontis portrait (Lockhart), t.e.g., in the original cross grain green cloth, blind stamped border decorations on the bevelled boards, gilt spine title, some occasional slight foxing, frontis foxed, title page printed in red and black, t.e.g., bookplate near.....
London. Longmans, Green and Co. 1917. 12mo. 18cm, 21p., first edition, with 30 photos, translator's note, illustrated printed wraps, very good to fine copy (Pol.ds). ~ French novelist, Pierre Loti wrote of the devastation wrought on France during World War One and illustrated same with graphic photographs. A lieutenant in.....
Edinburgh. Printed for A. Kincaid and W. Creech, and J. Balfour. 1773. 14.5cm, 223p., in full contemporary calf, triple crushed morocco spine labels, ink inscription on the rear endpaper, a very good to fine copy. (Lt).
Ottawa. Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development. 1970. 1970. Soft cover. Oblong4to, 21.5x 28cm, 107p., numerous diagrams, bibliography, stapled wraps, fine (ds7.4).
The Hakluyt Society. 1991. Hardcover. 21cm, xxviii, 546p., frontis, 4 maps, 1 facsimile plate, appendices, bibliography, index, blue cloth, gilt decoration & spine titles, fine in fine jacket. (Tr) Second Series. Vol. 174. Works issued by The Hakluyt Society.
Amsterdam. Etienne Roger. 1699. Hardcover. 24mo. 15cm, 4th edition (revised & corrected), 7,566,[10]pp., ads., title page vignette and 14 copper engravings plate illustrations including frontis, head & tail decoration, rear publisher's catalogues, new endpapers (coloured wallpaper), original calf boards re backed, raised bands, small gilt decorations in the panels, black.....
Amsterdam. Andre de Hoogenhuyen. 1691. Hardcover. 16cm, 452,[18],[42]pp., index, notes, in contemporary speckled calf, real raised bands, gilt decorations in the panels, gilt spine title, edges wornm top spine edge chipped, bit shaken but sound, good to very good, (hman.1). ~ Nicolas Perrot, Sieur d'Ablancourt (1606 1664) was a French.....
London. Longmans, Green, and Co. 1890. 1890. Hardcover. sm4to, 25.3cm, xliv,171p., glossarial index, full maroon fine grain linen, gilt spine titles, spine slightly sunned, some wear at the edges, some neat annotating in pencil, a very good copy, Rare. (snds). - Four treatises written from the 12th to 13th centuries.....
Oxford. Basil Blackwell. 1925. Hardcover. 20.6x 16cm, lxi,175p., with 4 colour illustrations tipped in (including frontis), 5 black & white plates, 2p.music, original blue grey decorated cloth, very good. Text in Italian and English. (S5.9). - A delightful collection of Italian folk poetry: songs of lovers, songs of the mother.....
Manchester. The Chetham Society. 1970. 1970. Hardcover. 21.5cm, vii,297p., map, index of persons, index of place names and subjects, blue cloth, a fine copy in very good jacket (b2).
Portland, Maine. Thomas B. Mosher. 1904. Soft cover. 20.5cm, limited edition of 450 copies, hand-made paper, rubricated title-page, decorated first initials, decorated wrappers over card covers, fine. (Lt) The reprint of a French mediaeval legend first published in English in 1894 in London. The American edition attractively published at the.....