Mainwaring g e ed (2 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket Issued. 1st Edition. Mainwaring (1587-1653), was an English lawyer, soldier, writer, pirate, Royal Navy Vice-Admiral and politician. He was for a time a pirate based in Newfoundland and then a naval officer with the Royal Navy. He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War and as a consequences was exiled and died in poverty. Mainwaring wrote several maritime books and discourses which are included herein. I-xxii+374pp, II-x+302pp. Cream cloth boards with Navy Records Society emblem in gilt to upper board. Black cloth to spine with gilt lettering. Light soiling to cloth. Spine cloth sunned. Fore and lower page edges are untrimmed. . Text-block and pages are in very good order.…

Two Volumes. 8vo, xxii + 375 (Vol. I); x + 304pp. (Vol. II). Original cream cloth with dark purple spine, slightly sunned on the backstrip. Page edges untrimmed. ffe of both volumes bear the signature of Geoffrey Blainey, dated 1968. A pair of volumes in near-fine condition. Two volumes.