Search Results: Titles starting with V from Sky Duthie Rare Books

London: W. P. Griffith and Sons, Ltd., 1888. Printed broadside (34.4 x 20.5cm). Minor contemporary manuscript correction to one of the printed height/chest measurements. There are three neat horizontal filing folds and a minor nick to each end of one of the folds, otherwise condition is very good. An uncommon late nineteenth-century naval recruitment broadside, boldly titled: "Wanted for the Royal Navy, Stout Healthy Boys, of Good Character, from 15 to 16 1/2 Years of Age". The broadside begins by setting out the various requirements for new recruits, such as height and chest measurements, as well as the stipulation that they "must be able to read and write, must have the written consent of their Parents or Guardians, and must sign an engagement to serve for 12 years from the date of attaining the age of 18". It then moves on to outline scales of pay, allowances, pensions, periods of leave and other arrangements (for example, "boys after 6 months' service can send money home to their parents or… Read More

Oxford: Oxford University Press., 1932.. Limited edition, no. 21 of 350 copies printed. Octavo. Publisher's original cream paper-covered boards with titles in black to the spine, in the original marbled-paper covered card slipcase with printed paper title label. Top edge gilt, the others untrimmed. Illustrated throughout with black and white woodcuts. 254pp. A near fine copy, the binding square and tight with some light dust-soiling to the spine and board edges. The contents with a little toning to the endpapers are otherwise wonderfully clean and crisp throughout. The slipcase with a little marking and spotting is otherwise in very good order. An account of the fourteenth-century eastern travels by (the probably fictitious) Sir John Mandeville, who journeyed across the Islamic world as far as India and China, traversing Turkey, Tartary, Persia, Syria, Arabia, Egypt, Libya, Ethiopia, Chaldea, and "the land of the Amazons". Providing a highly entertaining guide for pilgrims to the Holy Land, the work… Read More