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The Great O'Neill: A Biography of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, 1550-1616
by O'Faolain, Sean
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- 1970
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Cork, Ireland: The Mercier Press, 1970. Paperback. xii, 284p., wraps worn, spine creased, pages evenly toned, else very good condition. First published in 1942. Item Price
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Waarachtige. historie. Van 't Geslacht, Geboorte, Leven, Bedrijf, Gevangenisse, Examinatie, Bekentenisse, Rechters, Brieven, laatste woorden en Dood, van wijlen den Heer J. van Olden-Barnevelt..
by Francken, Jan; Johan van Oldenbarnevelt
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- 1670
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$250.00
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Rotterdam: Jan Heindrikze, 1670. Hardcover. [15], 654 p., bound in parchment, one fold-out illustration between pages 370 and 371, which has some edge chipping; several additional illustrations in the text. Third corrected edition, with some additional material by Jan Vranken. Small ownership stamp of Gustav Spaetow. Biographical study of Johan van Oldenbarnevelt , politician, lawyer, and founder of the… Read more about this item Item Price
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The History and Antiquities of St. Saviour's Southwark; Containing Annals from the first Founding, to the Present Time; List of the Priors and Benefactors; a particular Description of the Building, Ornaments, Monuments, Remarkable Places, &c. with Notes. In the Preface Is an Account of the First Priory and Nunnery in England: of the order of Canons, Knights-Templars, &c. &c. &c
by Tiler, Arthur
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- 1765
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London: J. Wilkie, 1765. Sewn Binding. viii, 5-51p, illustrated with a copperplate elevation of the building (fullpage, set as frontispiece), a disbound item, frontis detached without damage, textblock sound with mild smudges and empty stabholes throughout (held now by binder's glue), spine slightly rough, revealing partial detachment of a dog-eared terminal leaf. On p.34 find an old marginal symbol… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Voyage of Semen Dezhnev in 1648: Bering's Precursor, with Selected Documents by Raymond H. Fisher
by Fisher, Raymond H.
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- 1981
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- Hardcover
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- 9780904180077
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$30.00
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London: The Hakluyt Society, 1981. Hardcover. xiv, 326p., plentifully supplied with modern line maps (twenty-two) and three illustrations, hardbound in Hakluyt fashion: blue cloth boards gilt & blind, please note that this copy lacks the dust jacket. Aside from a faint sprinkle of foxing to top edge, item is perfectly clean, and is sound and unmarked. FYI, title refers… Read more about this item Item Price
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Heaven and Earth. Album Leaves from a Ming Encyclopedia: San-ts'ai t'u-hui, 1610
by Goodall, John A., selection and annotation
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- 1979
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$20.00
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London: Lund Humphries, 1979. Hardcover. 192p., illustrated with 120 images from the Sancai tuhui ( 三才圖會). Reproductions are fullpage, black and white; captioning is in a running numbered text; very good condition in an unclipped and lightly edgeworn dj. Item Price
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The Best of Vineyards Is the Cellar. This book was written for Hedges & Butler Ltd by Hugh Johnson and drawings by Charles Mozley
by Johnson, Hugh, text. Charles Mozley, drawings
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- 1965
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London: Galitzine, Chant, Russell & Partners Ltd, for Hedges & Butler Ltd, 1965. Hardcover. Unpaginated, a little over twenty pages long counting the numerous sketches, hardbound in textured green boards gilt, plates in sepia and b&w, a nice bright copy, sound, square, clean and unmarked. A very good to fine copy. The message: French wine is provisioned perfectly well… Read more about this item Item Price
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Relations of Golconda in the Early Seventeenth Century
by Moreland, W.H., editor
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- 1931
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London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1931. Hardcover. li [51], 109p., xlvii [Society matters], hardbound in the classic Hakluyt design: bright blue cloth boards gilt & blind, illustrated with two folded monochrome maps (as called for), the frontis map has a mildly misfolded margin. Signatures opened expertly and neatly throughout. Very good copy with a few aesthetic quibbles: top… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Voyage of Thomas Best to the East Indies 1612-14. Edited by Sir William Foster
by Best, Thomas, et alia. William Foster, editor
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- 1934
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$95.00
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London: Printed for The Hakluyt Society, 1934. Hardcover. lvi, 316p., illustrated with a few maps and a facsimile (all as called for), hardbound in Hakluiyt's signature skyblue cloth boards gilt & blind, and (how exceptional) the original plain printed dust jacket in good shape (item perhaps untouched since its publication?). Book itself is perfectly sound, square and crisp, interiorly… Read more about this item Item Price
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航路アジアへ!: Kōro Ajia He! (Route to Asia!) 鎖国前夜の東西交流 Sakoku Zenya no Tōzai Kōryū
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- 1998
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- Paperback
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- 9784924989115
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Tokyo: たばこと塩の博物館 (Tobacco and Salt Museum), 1998. Paperback. 269p., 8.75x11.75 inches, pictorial wraps, very good. Text in English and Japanese. Exhibition catalog from "The History of Cultural Exchange Between East and West in the 16th and 17th Century. Item Price
$20.00
![The Three Voyages of Edmond Halley in the Paramore 1698-1701. Edited by Norman J.W. Thrower [texts; with] The Voyages of the Paramore: Maps [paired volumes, complete set]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/188/567/1465567188.0.m.0.jpg)
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The Three Voyages of Edmond Halley in the Paramore 1698-1701. Edited by Norman J.W. Thrower [texts; with] The Voyages of the Paramore: Maps [paired volumes, complete set]
by Halley, Edmond, diarist. Norman J. W. Thrower, editor
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- 1981
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- Hardcover
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- 9780904180022
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London: The Hakluyt Society, 1981. Hardcover. 392p., maps (folded, smallish) and illustrations as called for, with pocketed maps (all three, folded, large) in a separate binding, each casebound item Hakluyt-style: medium-blue cloth boards gilt and blind, in dust jacket. Corner-tips slightly turned, light foxing to top edge of textblock, and rolling to the slim spine of the "portfolio", these… Read more about this item Item Price
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Zara Yacob; A seventeenth century rationalist: philosopher of the rationality of the human heart
by Kiros, Teodros
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- 2005
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Asmara, Eritrea [and] Lawrenceville, NJ: The Red Sea Press, Inc, 2005. Paperback. 156p., pictorial wrappers, 4.5x8 inches; in very good condition. Item Price
$40.00
![A New Account of East India and Persia. Being Nine Years' Travels, 1672-1681. By John Fryer. Edited, with Notes and an Introduction by William Crooke, Formerly of the Bengal Civil Service. Vol. I, Vol. II, Vol. III [all three parts, set complete]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/414/612/1464612414.0.m.jpg)
A New Account of East India and Persia. Being Nine Years' Travels, 1672-1681. By John Fryer. Edited, with Notes and an Introduction by William Crooke, Formerly of the Bengal Civil Service. Vol. I, Vol. II, Vol. III [all three parts, set complete]
by Fryer, John. William Crooke, editor
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- 1967
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Millwood NY / London: Kraus Reprint / Reproduced by permission of The Hakluyt Society, 1967. Hardcover. [xl], 353, 371, viii, 271p., maps and illustrations as called for and in fine shape, hardbound in matching light blue cloth boards spine-titled gilt. As new, plainly ordered new by our collector and never handled. Second series, nos. 19, 20, 39. Item Price
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Peter Floris, His Voyage to the East Indies in the Globe 1611-1615. The Contemporary Translation of his Journal, Edited by W.H. Moreland
by Floris, Peter. W.H. Moreland, editor
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- 1934
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$60.00
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London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1934. Hardcover. lxviii, 164p., illustrated with three modern line maps, these monochrome with a pale green tint (very nice), hardbound in the signature blue cloth boards gilt and blind, an excellent copy, sound, bright, clean and unmarked. Casebinding is bright as to cloth and to gilt lettering and decoration, top and tail rims… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Kongolese Saint Anthony. Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita and the Antonian Movement, 1684-1706
by Thornton, John K.
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- 1998
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- 9780521596497
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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Paperback. viii, 228p., illustrated with a few period images and two modern line maps, softbound in 9x6 inch decorated glossy wraps. Perfectly sound, clean and unmarked; a fine copy. Item Price
$12.00
![La Austrialia del Espiritu Santo. The Journal of Fray Martin de Munilla O.F.M. and other documents relating to The Voyage of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros to the South Sea (1605-1606) and the Franciscan Missionary Plan (1617-1627), Translated and edited by Celsus Kelly. With ethnological introduction, appendix, anmd other contributions by G.S. Parsonson. Volume I [&] Volume II [pair, complete set]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/425/772/1462772425.0.m.jpg)
La Austrialia del Espiritu Santo. The Journal of Fray Martin de Munilla O.F.M. and other documents relating to The Voyage of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros to the South Sea (1605-1606) and the Franciscan Missionary Plan (1617-1627), Translated and edited by Celsus Kelly. With ethnological introduction, appendix, anmd other contributions by G.S. Parsonson. Volume I [&] Volume II [pair, complete set]
by Munilla, Fray Martin de; Celsus Kelly, translator & editor
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- 1966
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Cambridge: Published for the Hakluyt Society by CUP, 1966. Hardcover. xvii, 270, xv, 273-446p., plates on inserted coated stock, maps and lengthy folded lists of encountered islands as called for, hardbound in the Hakluyt design, fine bright copies in their plain printed dust jackets. Djs are in general good shape, both have some tiny punctures and toned spine panels… Read more about this item Item Price
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Illustrations and Views of Dutch Ceylon 1602-1796. A comprehensive work of pictorial reference with selected eye-witness accounts
by Silva, R.K. de [and] W. G. M. Beumer
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- 1988
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- Hardcover
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$95.00
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London / Leiden: Serendib Publications / E.J. Brill, 1988. Hardcover. viii, 495p., all the art-book bells & whistles: great color & b&w reproductions (as called for) printed on immaculate alkaline paperstock. Large heavy hardbound in grey boards gilt-titled and enclosed in the dust jacket. Mildest edgewear to casing, a little more edgewear to dj, top edge faintly dust-soiled, the… Read more about this item Item Price
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![The Publications of the Champlain Society, The Works of Samuel de Champlain [reprinted 1971] // [complete set of seven bindings in fine shape]. The Works of Samuel de Champlain in Six Volumes; Reprinted, translated and annotated by six Canadian scholars under the general editorship of H.P. Biggar. Volume I, 1599-1607, translated and edited by H.H. Langton and W.F. Ganong, the French texts collated by J. Home Cameron. With a portfolio of plates and maps. Toronto The Society 1922 [exemplary description; ditto for vols II, III, IV, V, VI, and mapcase]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/846/747/1461747846.0.m.jpg)
The Publications of the Champlain Society, The Works of Samuel de Champlain [reprinted 1971] // [complete set of seven bindings in fine shape]. The Works of Samuel de Champlain in Six Volumes; Reprinted, translated and annotated by six Canadian scholars under the general editorship of H.P. Biggar. Volume I, 1599-1607, translated and edited by H.H. Langton and W.F. Ganong, the French texts collated by J. Home Cameron. With a portfolio of plates and maps. Toronto The Society 1922 [exemplary description; ditto for vols II, III, IV, V, VI, and mapcase]
by Champlain, Samuel de
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- 1971
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- Hardcover
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- 9780802017604
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$375.00
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Toronto: University of Toronto Press [the reprinting institution], 1971. Hardcover. Set complete in as-new condition. A labor of love showing very careful insertion of folded maps in amongst the texts of first two books. Red-orange buckram gilt, top edges also gilded. The mapcase was a lot of work, being a slipcase within a slipcase, the inner one provided with… Read more about this item Item Price
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Att Illustrera - Stormakten. Den svenska Fortifikationens bilder 1654-1719
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- 1999
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- Hardcover
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- 9789189442160
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$25.00
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[Helsinki]: Karolinska Forbundets Arsbok, 1999. Hardcover. 144p., text is Finnish-only; numerous period images, plans and elevations of forts and general military subjects, color wherever called for (beautiful reproductions), hardbound in oblong 9x10.5 inch decorated white boards. The casebinding is a little handled, slightly crimped spine rims and so forth, while interior and text are entirely clean and unmarked. A… Read more about this item Item Price
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Relation d'un voyage a la cote des Cafres 1686-1689. Edition etablie, annotee et commentee par Emmanuelle Dugay, Preface de Frank Lestringant et Paolo Carile, Avant-Propos de Francois Moureau
by Chenu de Laujardiere, Guillaume, author. Emmanuelle Dugay, editor in chief
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- 1996
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Paris: Les Editions de Paris, 1996. Paperback. 103p., illustrated with a number of period images reproduced fullpage, softbound in 9x6 inch frenchfold wraps, with an additional image reproduced on color cover, Item shows a couple mild signs of handling (stroke of red to front wrap, couple dots of foxing to foredge) and may be described as near-fine. Item Price
$20.00
![Breve Relation de la fondation de la mission des freres mineurs Capucins du seraphique pere saint Francois au royaume de Congo. et des particularities, coutumes et facons de vivre des habitants de ce royaume. Ecrite et dediee aux eminentissimes [&c &c] Rome, 1648. Traduite de l'Italien et annotee par Francois Bontinck](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/433/881/1459881433.0.m.jpg)
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Breve Relation de la fondation de la mission des freres mineurs Capucins du seraphique pere saint Francois au royaume de Congo. et des particularities, coutumes et facons de vivre des habitants de ce royaume. Ecrite et dediee aux eminentissimes [&c &c] Rome, 1648. Traduite de l'Italien et annotee par Francois Bontinck
by De Rome, Jean-Francois, author; aka Francesco Romano. Bontinck, Francois, translation
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- 1964
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Louvain / Paris: Editions Nauwelaerts, 1964. Paperback. xxviii, 149p., period illustrations on inserted coated stock, a softbound enclosed in a utilitarian library casing of black buckram boards, gilt titled. Ex library with a prim bookplate to pastedown and, below it, the library's withdrawal (item "removed") notice. Signatures opened neatly by hand throughout. Insertion into a casebinding has caused slight… Read more about this item Item Price
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