Exploration & Travel

Special edition. Publishers green cloth boards black illustration printed to front cover, gilt titles and frames to front cover and spine. 210 b/w illustrations, folding map in colour, pages browned, foxing to endpapers and map, closed tear to map. xii, 948 pp.

8vo, publishers brown cloth boards with ornamental gilt and blind-tooled title to front and gild title to spine. 12 engraved tinted plates and many small illustrations in text. edges rubbed, light foxing, a few inner joint cracks but holding firmly. Inscriptions of previous owners to front endpapers. 718 pp.

First edition of first work; second edition of second work; 4 volumes, 8vo, complete with 13 maps and 37 engraved plates (many folding), large folding plate of Solomon's Temple frayed at fore-edge and with tear, plate at page 76, vol. ii browned, contemporary panelled calf, spines richly gilt, light wear, to extremities, an excellent set.

First edition; 4to; engraved frontispiece (lightly spotted), 6 engraved maps (4 folding), slight offsetting to text, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, an excellent copy; xiv, 530, [ii] (errata and directions to binder), pp.

Ten parts, landscape elephant folio (39.4 x 51.7 cm), text in German and French, 60 hand-coloured lithographed plates, hand-coloured lithographed pictorial title and dedication page; hand-coloured pictorial wrappers, occasional light spotting.

First editions throughout, together 9 volumes, comprising 8 volumes 4to text, and folio atlas. Occasional light spotting, late eighteenth/early nineteenth century polished calf gilt, sometime neatly rebacked preserving spines, morocco labels, atlas bound to match, a fine set. [FIRST VOYAGE] First edition. 3 volumes. 52 engraved maps, charts and views, of which 44 folding; includes 'Streight of Magellan' plate (short tears and repairs to folds). [SECOND VOYAGE] First edition. 2 volumes. 64 engraved plates, maps, and charts (large chart with short tear to fold). [THIRD VOYAGE] First edition. 3 volumes text plus atlas, 87 engraved plates, charts, and maps. Beddie 650, 1216, 1543; Hill 782, 358, 361; Holmes 5, 24, 47; Mitchell Library Cook 648, 1216, 1552; Sabin 30934, 16245, 16250; Hill, 782, 358, 361; Printing and the Mind of Man 223, Rosove 77 & Taurus 1 (Second voyage); Forbes 62 and Lada-Mocarski 37 (3rd voyage). Height of text: 30 cm Overall width of set: 39 cm; Atlas Height 57cm, Depth 41cm.

First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, lxxxiv, 357; vi (but iv, mispaginated, complete); 509 pp., 2 large folding maps, large folding plate of inscriptions, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, rebacked preserving spines, rubbed, internally clean and fresh.

First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, 399; 402 pp., folding engraved map, contemporary green polished calf-backed marbled boards gilt, spines faded, occasional light spotting, a very good set.

Second edition with additions, 4to, xx, 114 pp., light spotting to title, dedication, and pages 103-110, contemporary calf, rebacked, a good copy.

Second edition. 4to, xxiii, [iii], 344, [xiv] index, [2] ads pp., folding plate and 4 folding maps, slight spotting, contemporary tree calf, expertly rebacked, original spine richly gilt, with red morocco label, laid down, a fine example.