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Hakluyt's Voyages. A Selection
by David, Richard (selection)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0701125330
- ISBN 13
- 9780701125332
- Seller
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Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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About This Item
(London: Chatto & Windus, 1981) 0701125330. Title taken from half-title. Title page reads "Hakluyt's Voyages". 8vo; original brown boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; endpaper map; pp. 640, incl. index; maps; illustrations in text. Some foxing to reverse of dustwrapper and flaps, also to edges and endpapers. Very good condition. "Like Gibbon's Decline and Fall, Hakluyt's collection has been unjustly neglected because of its enormous length. Many abridgements are too short to do justice to the variety and scope of the original, while others concentrate on its historical or economic interest. The present selection conveys all the variety of the original while emphasizing the extraordinary human interest of the documents." .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10962
- Title
- Hakluyt's Voyages. A Selection
- Author
- David, Richard (selection)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0701125330
- ISBN 13
- 9780701125332
- Publisher
- (London: Chatto & Windus, 1981) 0701125330
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 1981
- Keywords
- Voyages. English exploration. Maritime Travel
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel;
Terms of Sale
Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
All books offered subject to availability. Returns are accepted where we have erred materially in our description of goods.
About the Seller
Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
Biblio member since 2018
Port Elizabeth
About Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
Christison Rare Books operates as a mail order business, based in Port Elizabeth. We are members of IOBA and SABDA. Whereas we stock thousands of books on a wide variety of subjects, our focus has always been on SE Africa - its peoples, wildlife and history. The store is managed by Lindsay Christison. Although we do not run an open book shop, prospective customers who would like to examine items described in our on-line list of stock are welcome to make an appointment.
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Flap(s)
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...