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The Tudor Venturers: Selected from The principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffics and Discoveries of the English Nation, made by Sea or Over Land
by Hakluyt, Richard
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Palatine, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
London: The Folio Society. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1970. First Edition Thus. Second Printing. Hard Cover. 2nd Printing. Quarter bound in publisher's black cloth over wood-grain boards, gilt lettering and gilt and blue decoration on spine and cover, maps on endpapers, TEG (green). (ii), 320, (2) pp. Twelve full-page black & white illustrations, two of which are double-page, together with eight maps and additional in-text illustrations and glossary. Slipcase is still in one piece. VERY GOOD/VERY GOOD (slipcase).. Former owner's bookplate on ffep, front hinge just starting, rear cover and spine slightly rubbed, one corner bumped, else VG. B&W Illustrations. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (ii), 320, (2) pp .
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- Bookseller
- Round Table Books, LLC
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1914
- Title
- The Tudor Venturers: Selected from The principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffics and Discoveries of the English Nation, made by Sea or Over Land
- Author
- Hakluyt, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition Thus. Second Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Folio Society
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1970
- Keywords
- History;, Renaissance;, Elizabeth, England
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- Business, Law & Government;
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Palatine, Illinois
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- Hinge
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- Gilt
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- VG
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- FFEP
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- First Edition
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- Bookplate
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- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Spine
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