Exploration & Travel 2023

First edition; 2 vols, 8vo, xxii, [i], 462; x, [iii], 499 pp; 2 frontispieces, 45 illustrations, 34 maps and plans (some folding); original dark grey cloth gilt, gilt vignettes to upper covers and spines, occasional light foxing as usual, inner hinges neatly repaired, an attractive set.

First edition. 8vo, [8], 127 pp., photographic frontispiece, 14 plates, original green cloth gilt, a very good copy.

Third edition. 21 (separately paginated) parts in 2 vols, landscape folio (20 x 26 cm), first title-page re-margined on lower edge beneath date (no loss), complete with 2 engraved frontispieces and 230 engraved plates (some folding) in vol. I, slight loss to fore-edge pl. 16, Houtman, De Eerste Schipvaerd; also to plates 2 & 8, Van Noort, Beschrijvinge van de Schipvaerd; plate 5 , Neck, Tweede Schipvaert, possibly supplied (small margins); expert paper restoration to a strip of lower margin (6 cm x 1 cm at greatest extent) and similar repair to fold, pl. 6, Spilbergen, 't Historiael Journael; in vol. II, Van Den Broecke, Historische ende Journaelesche, plates short on lower margin (as issuedý); neat restoration to plates 3 & 10, Oost ende West-Indische Navigatien, later vellum to style, lettered in gilt, yapp edges, occasional light dampstaining (nothing untoward), a very good set.

First edition, 4to,, xiv, [ii], 164 pp., half-title, engraved map, 8 handcoloured aquatint plates (7 double-page or folding), light toning to text, occasional light foxing, later half calf, marbled boards, red morocco label, upper joint repaired, a very good copy.

First edition. 4to, [iv], [92], [2], (index) pp., 50 hand-coloured engraved plates all with slight brown toning, contemporary tree calf, red morocco label, neat repairs to joints, a very good example.

New and Definitive edition. 2 vols, 4to, 674; 696 pp., frontispiece, 2 large folding maps, 8 plates, illustrations in text, original brown cloth gilt, dustwrappers, prize bookplate to front pastedown, tiny stain to title and frontispiece else a fine set.

First edition. 8vo, xxii, 417 pp., 14 plates, 3 folding maps, Stoneyhurst College prize binding, full burgundy morocco gilt extra, all edges gilt, a fine example.

First edition. 8vo, xxiv, 774pp., frontispiece, 43 plates, 4 large folding maps, illustrations in the text, original red cloth gilt, spine lightly faded, a very good copy.

First edition. 2 volumes in 1, 8vo. Illustrated with 6 chromolithographs and 7 lithographs, contemporary half morocco gilt, light wear to joints, a very good set.

First edition. 8vo, viii, 411 pp., contemporary half calf gilt, a very good copy.