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James Maclehose And Sons., 1906. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1906. No Edition Stated. 448 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Red cloth with gilt lettering. B&W illustrations throughout. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Some gutter cracking. Ex-library with usual stamps, inserts and markings. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with sunning to spine. Notable scuffing, staining and marking to boards. Dewy code to spine.

Jonathan Cape, 1928. Hardcover. Good. 1928. First Edition Thus. 287 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pen inscription to front pastedown. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Minor sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Minor wear marks to boards.

London:: Folio Society,. Very Good. 1974. Hardcover. Edited, with an introduction by Gilbert Phelps. First edition thus. Near fine in a very good (edge worn) slipcase. .

London, The Folio Society, 1974., 1974. First edition thus. 8vo. Edited with an introduction and notes by Gilbert Phelps. 10 b/w facsimile illustrations; 4 b/w test maps (3 double-page) by K.C. Jordan; color map on endpapers. Original gilt stamped dark green cloth, stamped gilt and orange on the spine. Very good-fine. 290 pages. As issued, without dust jacket. Original publisher's slipcase. No signatures or bookplates.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

London: The Folio Society, 1974. First edition thus. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. [7], 8-290, [2] pp. Green cloth with gold decorations on the front board, gold lettering and gold and orange decorations on the spine; brown topstain. Housed in a yellow paper slipcase. Maps on the endpapers and pastedowns. With full-page maps and illustrations. Edited with an introduction by Gilbert Phelps. Nash 350. The Folio Society edition was the first publication of this work since 1906. Light rubbing to the extremities and a bookplate on the verso of the free front endpaper.

Folio Society. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. Slipcase Good. (travel, travelogue) A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain a few markings such as an owner’s name, short gifter’s inscription or light stamp.

Cosimo Classics, 2005-06-15. Paperback. Good.

London: The Folio Society, 1974. 290pp, bw ills, col endpaper maps. Or green and gilt cloth lacking slipcase. Some minor foxing to page edges. Over 3 journeys in the 1600s Lithgow travelled through most of Europe, the Middle East and Holy Land, North Africa (including Morocco, Egypt and Libya). A shotened account of his first 'peregrination' was published in 1614, and a selection of his travels were published in Hakluyts Posthumus of 1625. Not until 1632 was the first full version published. As well as fascinating accounts of travel he tells of his capture and torment by the Spanish at Malaga under the Inquisition.. First Folio Society Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1928. (UK) 1st in this edition. Owner's name and price notation, no other markings,the margin of pages 11 /12 is torn without affecting the text, otherwise Very Good; lacking the dust jacket. Blue cloth with gold spine titles, 287pp, [16]pp of publisher's ads. This is an abridge edition made from the James MacLehose 1906 version of The Totall Discurse of the Rare Adventures and Painfull Peregrinations by William Lithgow. Lithgow was born in 1582 and thisis an account of his travels from Scotland to Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands and later to Spain and the Mediterranean. The earliest version of this book appeared in 1614. (1.4 JM HOQ100/a2. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

London: The Folio Society. Near Fine. 1974. Hardcover. A handsome Folio Society edition of William Lithgow's account of his various travels, or "peregrinations." The author (c.1582–c.1645), a Scotsman, roamed all over Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, mostly on foot. He claimed to have travelled 36,000 miles (per Wikipedia), during which he was subjected to much abuse, including torture. Includes woodcut illustrations by an unattributed artist, black & white maps, and antique color maps at endpapers. Edited and introduced by Gilbert Phelps. --- In full green leather-look cloth-covered boards with decorations and titling to cover & spine in gilt and orange. Volume housed in gold paper-covered slipcase. --- A well-preserved copy: tightly-bound, clean and unmarked. Structurally sound slipcase also in excellent shape, though with mild sunning along one end.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; [7], 8-290, [2] pages .

London: The Folio Society. VG : in Very good condition with faded yellow slipcase. Split to base of slipcase spine. 1974. First FS Edition. Green/gilt hardback cloth cover. 220mm x 150mm (9" x 6"). 290pp. .

London: The Folio Society. VG: in very good condition with yellow slipcase. 1974. First FS Edition. Green/gilt hardback cloth cover. 230mm x 150mm (9" x 6"). 290pp. 10 b/w plates. .

Folio Society, January 1974. Hardcover. Used - Very Good. This copy is in Excellent Condition and still rotected in the storage box. The pages are clean and crisp and the binding is tight. There is minor rubbing to the edge of the spine, and corners of the box. No other marks, writing or damgage. Quick Shipping and Delivery Confirmation!

London: The Folio Society, 1974. Hardcover. Very Good. London, The Folio Society, 1974 (first thus). Octavo, 291 pages with 4 maps (3 double-page) and 10 illustrations plus colour endpaper maps. Gilt-decorated cloth; an excellent copy in the lightly sunned slipcase.

Cosimo Classics, 2005-06-15. Paperback. Used:Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

London: The Folio Society, 1974. Edited, with an Introduction by Gilbert Phelps. Pp. 290+[2](colophon, verso blank), frontispiece, plus text illustrations (some full page), 4 text maps (3 double page), coloured endpaper map; dark green cloth, lettered and decorated in light brown & gilt; top edges brown; within yellow card slipcase, bottom edge of one side cracked; bookplate of David Levine, Sydney, on verso of upper free endpaper, a little light foxing; The Folio Society, London, 1974. Folio 60/350.*The illustrations are from the first edition (1632).

Paperback / softback. New.

Lond. Folio Society., 1974.. Or.dec.cl. 290pp. b/w ills. & maps. Very good copy. 1st Folio Society ed. One of the great travel books first published in the 17th century.

Hardback. New.