London: Perpetua Books, 1960. Royal 8vo. First edition. Original black cloth, gilt. Illustrated in black and white throughout. Neat ink ownership on fly. Unclipped d/w is very slightly faded on the spine. Fine in near fine d/w.
London: The Hakluyt Society, 1974. Crown 8vo. First edition. Original navy buckram, gilt. Top edge stained blue. With 51 illustrations (4 in colour) and 5 maps. Presentation label on the flyleaf. D/w faded on the spine with some rubbing to the extremities and a couple of very short closed tears.....
Cambridge: Printed at the University of Cambridge for Constable and Company Limited & Houghton Mifflin Company, 1928. 8vo. 2 volumes, set. One of a limited edition of 1000 sets. Original quarter olive green cloth with printed paper labels to the spines and light grey boards. Untrimmed except for the top.....
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1954. 8vo. First edition. Original maroon cloth, gilt. Top edge stained red. Portrait frontispiece and eight further plates. Ink ownership on fly. Price-clipped d/w tanned on the spine. Near fine in near fine d/w.
Cambridge and London: Cambridge University Press (volumes 1-3) & A & C Black (volume 4) for the Hakluyt Society, 1967-74. 8vo. 6 volumes, set. Original navy buckram, gilt. Volumes 1 and 2 are second printings from 1968 (originally issued in 1955) with the Addenda and Corrigenda incorporated. The remaining volumes.....
London: John Murray, 1897. 8vo. Reprint. Tonbridge School Prize Binding by Bickers & Son, Leicester Square, in full tree calf, with raised bands, leather label and gilt decoration including the school arms on both boards. All edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. School prize label on front pastedown. With portrait frontispiece. Just.....
London: Chatto & Windus, 1999. 8vo. First edition. Original maroon paper-covered boards. With illustrations by David Holmes. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons, 1903-05. 8vo. 12 volumes, set. First editions thus. Original navy cloth, lettered on the spines and with gilt emblems to the front boards. Top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Portrait frontispieces, except volume 12. 5 folding facsimile plates, 35 folding maps and plans, 55 plates etc......
Edinburgh: E. & G. Goldsmid, 1885-90. Tall 8vo. 16 volumes in 17, set. First edition thus. Fourth edition overall. This edition based upon the Second Edition (1598-1600). Original red cloth, gilt. Fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Numerous maps and illustrations, some folding. Most spines uniformly faded. A little wear to.....
London: John Murray, 1947. 4to. First trade edition. Original yellow cloth. Illustrated by the author. Spine ends darkened where the d/w is chipped. Title page browned probably by some, now absent, newspaper clipping. D/w also rubbed, dust-soiled and with several short splits. Very good + in good d/w. There was.....
London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1930. Pott 8vo. Reprint. First published in The World's Classics in 1924. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. Top edge stained blue. Neat ink ownership on fly. Fine. #275 in The World's Classics.
London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1930. Pott 8vo. Reprint. First published in The World's Classics in 1924. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. Top edge stained blue. Front board a bit marked. Very good +. #275 in The World's Classics.
London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1924. Pott 8vo. First impression in this series. Original green cloth, gilt. Silk marker ribbon. Covers dulled. Neat ink ownership on fly. Very good. #253 in The World's Classics.
London & Hyeres: The Fleet Printing Works and H. Souchon (J. Evans and Company), 1882. Small 8vo. First edition thus. First published in Carnarvon in 1881 in a tiny edition. Original dusty pink cloth printed in black. Eighteen pages of advertisements at the back and a tipped in promotion for.....
London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1935. Pott 8vo. Reprint. First published in this series in 1907. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. Top edge stained blue. Faint marks to covers. Neat ink ownership on fly. Near fine. #90 in The World's Classics.
London: Wiliam Heinemann Ltd, 1975. 8vo. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. Top edge stained green. Black and white photographic plates. Some pencil notes and marginalia throughout. Unclipped d/w is slightly rubbed along the edges. Very good + in near fine d/w.