Durango: Editorial de la Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango, 2009. Paperback. 272p., wraps, 6.75x9 inches, very good condition. Text in Spanish. One of an edition of 1,000 copies. First published in 1853 as part of the series Documentos para la Historia de México. More
Cat.No: 280520
Paris: Printed by E. Desfosses-Neogravure [for the state], 1936, 1949. Pamphlet. Respectively [35] and [25]p., both items are 10x8 inch pamphlets, staplebound. The 1936 piece is illustrated in b&w with facsimiles of documents establishing the game and remarkably clear small photogravures from various periods; somewhat handled and dusty with a...... More
Cat.No: 223480
Tokyo: たばこと塩の博物館 (Tobacco and Salt Museum), 1998. Paperback. 269p., 8.75x11.75 inches, pictorial wraps, very good. Text in English and Japanese. Exhibition catalog from "The History of Cultural Exchange Between East and West in the 16th and 17th Century." More
Cat.No: 280940
Colombo, Sri Lanka: Lake House Investments Ltd., 1966. Hardcover. 247p., cloth-covered boards, 5.5x8.5 inches, map endpapers, corners bumped, small hole in cloth of front board, pages lightly toned else good condition in a heavily worn dj with a small hole on the front panel corresponding to the hole in the..... More
Cat.No: 267881
Venice: Marsilio Editori, 1990. Hardcover. 24p., followed by XXXIII fullpage doublespread facsimiles in full color, a large atlas (plates 16.5x11.5 inches), the doublespreads separated by blanks. The handsome text-block is in fine shape, from the unmolested preliminary blanks through terminal plate and abbreviated colophon. The hard binding (blue-grey papered boards..... More
Cat.No: 275846
San Juan: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, 1971. Hardcover. x, 165p., text in English, profusely illustrated, very good in pictorial boards. Written for and dedicated to "the Puerto Rican students in the United States" to encourage the study of their Puerto Rican heritage. We searched for the term, and/or concept of..... More
Cat.No: 139160
London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1954. Hardcover. xcviii, 267p., maps and illustrations as called for, hardbound in medium-blue cloth boards gilt. A bright tight copy, top and tail rims mildly crimped, a very good copy, entirely clean and unmarked. More
Cat.No: 280653
London: Printed for The Hakluyt Society, 1938. Hardcover. lxix, 228p., maps and illustrations as called for, hardbound in bright blue cloth boards gilt & blind (the standard Hakluyt formula). Find four folded maps in end-pocket, these in perfect condition. Corner-tips mildly turned, top & tail rims slightly crimped, tiny nick..... More
Cat.No: 280292
Mexico D.F. Fondo de Cultura Economica, 1958. Hardcover. vii, 32p., plus 40 full-page modern line maps in colors printed rectos only, hardbound in oblong boards, 9.5x13.5 inch wraparound pictorials overprinted with titling, under cloth backstrip gilt-titled. A banged-up copy, quite edgeworn with a severe bump to upper left corner that..... More
Cat.No: 276870
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1943. Hardcover. 217p., illustrated with several inserted plates and a front endpaper map in facsimile. Hardbound in green cloth boards titled in black. A very good copy, perfectly sound, clean and unmarked. More
Cat.No: 279181
London: The Hakluyt Society, 1975. Hardcover. x, 315p., illustrated with 154 pen & ink sketches from a 1700 edition (many quite detailed), plus a couple of modern line maps. Hardbound Hakluyt-fashion in blue cloth boards gilt & blind and enclosed in the dust jacket. The casing is immaculate with bright..... More
Cat.No: 281091
Goteborg: Kungl. Vetenskaps- och Vitterhets-Samhallet, 1979. Paperback. 232p., illustrated with one line map (very last leaf), text entirely in English, softbound in 9x6 inch plain printed (but rubricated) grey wraps (laid lines, nice stock), continental-style paperback with overlapping covers (a bit worn) and closed signatures (a former owner read all..... More
Cat.No: 265564
Wiltshire, UK: The E.J.W. Gibb Memorial Trust, 2001. Hardcover. xxvii, 160p., cloth-covered boards, 6.25x8.75 inches, very good condition in like dj. Domenico Hiersolimitano was a Rabbi, doctor and court physican to Sultan Murat III before converting to Catholicism and working at an instructor of Hebrew in Rome. More
Cat.No: 265401
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Wolfe Island, Ontario: The Walker Press, 1975. Hardcover. xv, 140, xiv, 312p., for both volumes presswork is on coated alkaline paperstock, illustrated with numerous b&w photo-facsimile maps plus diagrams that explain each. No color. Hardbound in 12x9 inch green buckram boards lettered green, Nice copies, stout and square, upper corner-tips..... More
Cat.No: 279410
Washington DC: Freer Gallery of Art - Arthur M. Sackler Gallery - Smithsonian Institution, 1998. Paperback. 53p., b&w reproductions throughout, nicely done, softbound in 11x6.5 inch lime-green wraps, a clean sound unmarked copy. India was at this time "the wealthiest Muslim nation on earth" and artists could be hired by..... More
Cat.No: 264325
London: The Folio Society, 1965. Hardcover. 192p., illustrated with numerous modern line maps in-text, and seven pictorial maps modified by our modernist from an issue of 1631 (clearer detail, in-plate "keys"). Hardbound in 10x6 inch veneered boards under a paper-vellum backstrip, gilt-titled. Mild edgewear to casing with abrasion to veneer..... More
Cat.No: 276652
Rome: Jouvence - Viella, 1982. Various paginations, nice clear reproduction of texts and facsimile maps, the doublespreads mounted on stubs so these open fully, a small folio in rather utilitarian decorated papered boards, 12x8.5 inches. Mild edgewear, spine rims slightly crimped with a touch of paper-fray to topmost, generally sound..... More
Cat.No: 265004
New York: Burt Franklin, Publisher / Originally published by The Hakluyt Society, Reprinted by permission, n.d., circa 1965. Hardcover. xi, 173p., xvii, 229p., we see no illustrations or any maps, hardbound item inclusive of two book-length narratives. Grey buckram boards spine-titled gilt, ex private library with a single large rubberstamped..... More
Cat.No: 281405
London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1918, 1921. Hardcover. lxxxvi, 238, xxxix [Society matters], xxxi, 286p., xliii, the pair complete and in nice clean condition. Hardbounds in the Hakluyt style, blue cloth boards gilt and blind, top and tail rims slightly crimped, one of the decorative gilt caravels on v.2..... More
Cat.No: 280928
London: Hakluyt Society, 1932. lvi, 210p., very good hardcover. Series II vol. 69. More
Cat.No: 271630
Paris: Editions Chandeigne / Quetzal Editories, 1993. Hardcover. 137p., cloth-covered boards, 9x11.25 inches, profusely illus., very good condition in like dj. More
Cat.No: 272489
Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico Press, 1945. xvi, 368p., illustrated with very clear b&w site photography, first edition in maroon cloth boards gilt, 10.5x7.5 inches. An unmolested copy made perhaps the more useful by the increasing age of the pix, reproduced in photogravure. The only flaw we see is..... More
Cat.No: 272390
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974. xi, 436p., line maps as called for, first edition black cloth boards gilt in glossy orange dj. Jacket was once tacked to endsheet pastedowns with spots of glue, now detached with slight damage to endsheets, jacket also slightly edgeworn, a good sound clean copy..... More
Cat.No: 170367
London: John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd, 1927. Hardcover. ix, 315p., letterpress on laid-lined paperstock throughout, illustrations and maps as called for. Hardbound in 9x5.5 inch dark blue cloth boards titled gilt and decorated in blind, untrimmed fore- and bottom-edges, a mildly edgeworn volume with turned corner-tips, crimped top and..... More
Cat.No: 281541
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1958. Hardcover. 92p + lengthy facsimile section (reproduced in sepia offset), smallish hardbound in papered boards & printed spine label gilt, and enclosed in the dust jacket. Book itself is as new, perfectly clean, sound and unmarked, while the dj is price-clipped (neatly), the top margin..... More
Cat.No: 271773
