A Life of John Davis, The Navigator, 1550 - 1605 by Clements R Markham - 1889

London: George Philip and Son Ltd, 1889. First edition. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 587 8vo. In the series The World's Great Explorers. Brown cloth-covered boards, black titles to front board and spine, five full-page illustrations, other illustrations in run of text (most from sketches), four fold-out maps, other maps in run of text, 301 pages plus publisher's advertisement/catalogue (unpaginated, 5 leaves). Condition notes: Boards worn along joints, foxing to prelims and thereafter spotting here and there, dust soiling to external edges of text block. All maps as called for, one coming away from the binding but itself intact.