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Softback. Etat : Near Fine. Second Edition with Revisions. Collection of writings on maritime matters which includes pieces written by Richard Hakluyt and William Bourne, Sebastian Cabot and Captain Hall, and accounts of the travels or seamanship of such as Francis Drake, Martin Frobisher and the Earl of Essex. This third part is continuously paginated with the first two parts ( not offered here). All our UK orders are posted First Class. All profits to Amnesty International. Size: 15.2cm.22.2cm/pp 501 to 696.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 3.6.

Soft cover. Etat : Near Fine. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Three parts, i-xxxix, 500 pp, 87 black and white illustrations, 43 diagrams, card covers contained in paper sleeve, the sleeve a little torn at the bottom of the spine, the books are near fine. A revised edition of a classic work first published in 1958.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 3.6.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Copy in blue cloth on boards with gilt title on spibne. Boards slightly scuffed. Spine slightly rubbed at hea/foot. Corners bumped. Small crack in front hinge. Crack in rear hinge. Light tanning to FFE. Previous owners inscription on FFE. Previous owners notes on rear paste down. Pencil underlinings and margin noptes from previous owner, other wise clean text with b/w plates. This is a heavy book and may require additional postage.

hardcover. Etat : Good. No dust jacket. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good in Good dust jacket. First edition. 25.5 x 16 cm. Royal octavo. 696pp. Plates, appendices, bibliography, index. Blue cloth in dust jacket. There is some chipping to the edges of the jacket. Some toning to the jacket. Old price stamp on front free endpaper, bookplate on front fixed endpaper.

Small quarto, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, upper page edges stained light blue, frontispiece, xxxix + 696pp, illus, VG (some soiling to boards, v slight tanning to page edges, light foxing to prelims).

Blue cloth, gilt. Etat : Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. xxxix, 696pp. Frontispiece, 86 photographic plates, 43 diagrams and 30 tables. Fore-edge a trifle foxed not affecting margins otherwise a very sound tight copy in an unfaded original binding. Foreword by Admiral of the Fleet The Earl Mountbatten of Burma.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. Illustrated Throughout (illustrateur). All books outside UK sent airmail. All sent tracked. PayPal accepted. Three volumes. Modern Maritime Classics reprint no 2. Near fine copies, complete with original printed sleeve, faded at spine and a little on rear. Price is for the set of three.

xxxix, 696 pp. b/w plates. One of the more erudite maritime reference books. Very good condition in chipped and torn remains of a dust jacket.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition. First printing. 8vo. 696 pp. Blue cloth. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Jacket mildly worn with 1" tear to front panel near head of spine, light dust soiling to rear panel.

(XXXIX) 969 p. Bound in the publisher's blue cloth with gilt title spine (Exteriors of the binding slightly rubbed and without the dustjacket, otherwise in good condition.).

1st Edition. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: xxxix, 696 pages: illus., ports., maps, facsims. ; 26 cm. Notes: "Select list of secondary sources and of original sources first published after 1640": p. 597-618. "Chart reproductions": p. 619-622. "Index of navigational mss. and works printed before 1640": p. 625-628. Subjects: Navigation England History 16th century. Navigation England History 17th century. Tudor Period. Great Britain History Stuarts, 1603-1714. Pilots and pilotage Great Britain History. Genre: Illustrated. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Etat : VG. Jacket Condition: None. Oversized. Blue cloth binding. First page has writing from previous owner but free of other markings. FOREWORD by THE EARL MOUNTBATTEN OF BURMA : For the past four thousand years the Art of Navigation has been one of the most important contributions to the development of civilization; for perhaps the greatest achievement of man in the ancient world was his realization that he could explore new territories as a source of new materials. But the caravan routes that he established entailed large initial outlay for roads, and a vast output of energy in carrying loads; so trading along these routes was mostly confined to luxury articles (such as spices, silks, and jewels) whose value was very high in relation to their weight or bulk. The invention of sailing, which was man's first attempt to replace the labour of slaves or animals by the harnessing of natural forces, introduced for the first time the prospect of importing and exporting goods in bulk, and of developing a way of life that would to some extent be dependent on materials produced elsewhere. With the introduction of sailing the need immediately arose for navigational calculations; for the stars provided the primitive seafarer with his only means of finding his way when land was no longer in sight. The beginnings of calculation are to be found in the earliest civilizations of Egypt, Sumeria, and Babylon; though the results were mainly used for the building of temples and pyramids. But these techniques spread along the great trade routes, down to and beyond the Mediterranean, where the Semitic peoples began to trade in tin and dyes. Already by 2000 B.c. the Semites of Asia Minor had established colonies throughout the Mediterranean world; Carthage was founded in the ninth century B.C. by the Ph?nicians; and three centuries later Hanno was able to coast along West Africa as far as Sierra Leone-to within 8? of the equator. The Ph?nicians found out very early how to navigate by the position of the stars in the Little Bear; but scientific geography can really be said to have begun with the determination of latitude, which probably ante-dates Greek civilization. In the sixth century B.c. Thales of Miletus, a merchant of Tyrian parentage, founded Greek geometry and astronomy; and soon in the city states of Greece calculation became a fashionable pastime. Indeed, Plato taught that geometry was the highest exercise to which human leisure could be devoted.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. Large 8vo. pp xxxix, 696. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. This book is very heavy, and delivery costs may be a consideration especially outside Britain. Very good indeed in somewhat rubbed, near very good dust jacket. No inscriptions, not price-clipped.

Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, xxxix, 696 pages. In Good plus condition. Spine is partially sunned blue with gilt lettering. Boards have some shelf wear, rubbing, minor tears to the bottom of the spine, and a library identification sticker on the spine. Text block has minor light pencil writing on the rear paste down and dedication page, a tear along the gutter on the first end paper, and a small sticker on the top of the rear paste down. Ex-Library. Shelved in Room G. 1373033. Special Collections.

1958 1ST VG BLUE BOARDS GILT TITLES NO D/W.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good+. Owner stamp on top & bottom edge else nice; jacket has spine sunned, faint soil & tiny chip; 969 pages.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. Large number of plates throughout. (illustrateur). 1st Edition. Some cockling to lower edge of the earlier plates. Very good copy in blue publishers cloth in slightly repaired and browned dustwrapper, with a few small chips and rubbing, generally a very good copy. 696 p. Book.

First Edition. Signed, presentation copy from Henry C. Taylor (see below). xxxix, 696 pp; 87 plates; 43 figures and diagrams. Original cloth. Upper corner of rear cover bumped, upper corner of front cover slightly bumped. Else Very Good, without dust jacket. "Some years ago Mr. Henry C. Taylor, of New York, suggested to me that the historical significance of the navigational books and manuscripts of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries in his library. would provide the theme for a short essay of considerable interest. From that seed this book has grown and taken shape. Its completion also is due, in the first instance, to the unfailing interest of Mr. Taylor in the progress of my researches. Moreover, without full access to his remarkable library of books and manuscripts relating to the early colonization of America and the navigational techniques used and developed, the task of writing this book would have been both more difficult and less congenial" (p. xxxvii). "Taylor Collection: Books and manuscripts relating to the science and technique of navigation and to the discovery and exploration of the coasts and lands of America. Formed and given by Henry C. Taylor, 1917" (Web site of Yale's Beinecke Library). Also see John C. Kebabian, The Henry C. Taylor Collection (New Haven, 1971).

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First edition. With the bookplate of Stillman Drake. Tall thick 8vo., cloth, xxxviii, 696pp. A fine copy in d/w with a bit of wear to the top of the spine. The definitive book on the subject.

FIRST EDITION. A VERY GOOD COPY WITH FOXING TO THE PAGE EDGES. GLASSINE PROTECTED DUSTWRAP. FOREWORD BY ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET, THE EARL MOUNTBATTEN OF BURMA.

FIRST EDITION. A FINE COPY IN A FINE, GLASSINE PROTECTED DUSTWRAP. FOREWORD BY ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET, THE EARL MOUNTBATTEN OF BURMA.

FIRST EDITION.A VERY GOOD COPY WITH FOXING TO THE PAGE EDGES AND OTHER FOXING TO THE PAGES. GLASSINE PROTECTED DUSTWRAP. FOREWORD BY ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET, THE EARL MOUNTBATTEN OF BURMA. THE COPY OF R K FOULKES, LEADER OF NO. 630 SQUADRON IN WW2 AND AUTHOR OF 'A DISCOURSE CONCERNING TIME'.

Leatherbound. Etat : NEW. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 834. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1958 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 834.