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RAWICZ Slavomir
The Long Walk. [Second Impression]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Impression, with 2 full-page maps in the text, page-edges browning; blue cloth, a bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped at head and tail of backstrip. Published in the same month as the first edition. The harrowing account of a young Polish officer's captivity under the Russians, and his eventual break for freedom from Siberia across the Gobi to Tibet.
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VOSSLER H.A.
With Napoleon in Russia 1812. The Diary of Lt. H A Vossler of the Grand Army 1812-1813. Translated by Walter Wallich. Lithographs by Christian-Wilhelm von Faber du Faur.
4to., First Edition thus, with 6 lithographed plates (4 double-page) and endpaper maps; pictorial cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in publisher's patterned board slip-case.
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RAU Santha Rama
My Russian Journey. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With bookplate on front paste-down. Detailed and personal account of life in Russia during the late 1950s.
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SOLZHENITSYN Alexander
Lenin in Zurich. Chapters. [Translated by H.T. Willets].
8vo., First English Edition; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with one small loss at front fold-in. Second volume of Solzhenitsyn's projected multi-volume account of Russian revolutionary history. First published in Paris in the previous year.
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TARRANT V.E.
The Red Orchestra.
8vo., First Edition, with 4 maps in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper. Best and most detailed study of the Soviet spy network operting inside Germany in WWII.
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YERMAK [Timofeyevich]
Yermak's Campaign in Siberia. A Selection of Documents translated from the Russian by Tatiana Minorsky and David Wileman, and edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by Terence Armstrong. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with folding frontispiece, 154 illustrations and full-page map in the text, and folding map; original series binding of blue cloth, sailing vessel blocked in gilt on upper board, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Hakluyt Society, Second Series, No. 146. Bridges & Hair p.291.
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CARR E.H.
Karl Marx. A Study in Fanaticism. IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and 7 plates; handsomely bound in burgundy full morocco, back with five raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled and ruled in gilt, black top, uncut, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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SAUER M.
Expedition to the Northern Parts of Russia. [Facsimile re-issue].
8vo., with 14 plates and a large folding map; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy. Much-needed high quality facsimile re-issue of the scarce original edition of 1802. No dustwrapper was issued. Now very uncommon in its own right.
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[Sale Catalogue of] the Diaghilev-Lifar Library.
4to., with a coloured frontispiece and 32 full-page illustrations in the text; decorative boards gilt, gilt back, covers very lightly age-marked else a very good, clean copy. This renowned library of Russian literature which included, among other works, first editions of Lomonossov, Pouch, Tourgueniev and Dostoievsky, comprised 826 lots.
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UNBEGAUN B.O.
A Bibliographical Guide to the Russian Language. With the Collaboration of J. .G. Simmons. NEAR FINE XL COPY IN THE DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper; original blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper, the latter mildly age-browned at backstrip. Sold from an institution with its bookplate on front paste-down, and small neat stamp on dustwrapper and title verso. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION
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WRAGG David
Sacrifice for Stalin. The Cost and Value of the Arctic Convoys re-assessed. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Appendices list the convoys and the merchant contingent. Few punches are pulled in this notable addition to the recent literature of Arctic convoys.
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HAMILTON Ian
A Staff Officer's Scrapbook during the Russo-Japanese War. IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition, with a sepia-toned frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present), 16 plates, 15 maps (several coloured and folding) and a folding map at end, some minimal age-soiling; handsomely bound in handsomely bound in burgundy full morocco, back gilt with five raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled and ruled in gilt, uncut, original gilt from upper board and backstrip mounted at front on new and separate leaves, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. With 16pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. A lovely copy of this senior eye-witness account. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
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MIKHAILOV Nicholas
Soviet Russia. The Land and its People. In collaboration with Vadim Pokshishevsky. [Translated from the Russian by George H. Hanna]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 14 plates, free endpapers very lightly browned; yellow ribbed cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in red and blue, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. Very scarce, especially in this condition.
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KUDRYAVTSEVA T.
Circling the Square. Avant-Garde Porcelain from Revolutionary Russia. FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
4to., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece and numerous coloured photographs throughout; original pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. Lavishly produced catalogue of the major exhibition held at the Hermitage Rooms, Somerset House, London, 18 November 2004 to 31 July 2005. Co-sponsored by the State Hermitage Museum and the Courtauld Institute of Art.
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[Sale] Catalogue of Magnificent Imperial Russian Banqueting Services used at the Coronation of the Tsars.
4to., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, 2 coloured plates and 4 plates in monochrome; original grey boards blocked and lettered in gilt and red, a very good, clean copy. Sale catalogue of an extensive porcelain service made for Tsar Nicholas I in the mid-nineteenth century and used in Imperial banquets. SCARCE
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TOLSTOY Nikolai
The Minister and the Massacres. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Detailed account of Stalin's deportation post-WWII of 40,000 Cossacks and White Russians and the subsequent cover-up. With a number of relevant cuttings loosely inserted.
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APPLEBAUM Anne
Gulag. A History of the Soviet Camps. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, plates, and illustrations and maps in the text; burgundy cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, burgundy endpapers, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. The first detailed account of the Soviet camp system and its horrors.
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PIEKALKIEWICZ Janusz
Operation Citadel. Kursk and Orel: The Greatest Tank Battle of the Second World War. Translated from the German by Michaela Nierhaus. [First English Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo. First Edition thus with illustrated title-spread very numerous photographs (a number full-page) illustrations and maps throughout; black cloth backstrip lettered in silver a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. As always with this author a detailed and well-illustrated account. Enser p.217.
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CHAVCHAVADZE David
The Grand Dukes. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. VERY SCARCE.
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CORNISH Nik
Armageddon Ost. The German Defeat on the Eastern Front 1944-45. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with illustrated title-spread and numerous photographs throughout; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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REED John
Ten Days that shook the World. Preface by John Simpson. Introduction by A J P Taylor. Foreword by V.I. Lenin. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
8vo., with frontispiece, 16 pages of monochrome plates and endpaper maps; red pictorial cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, red and black, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.
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SCHOFIELD B.B.
The Russian Convoys. [Batsford British Battles series]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 39 plates on 16 and 8 maps (one double-page) in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright copy in dustwrapper. Published in Batsford's sought-after 'British Battles' series, this comprehensive and lucid overview is the first coverage of the subject by an authority who has since made it a special area of study. Enser, p.119; Law 0513.
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LE CARRE John
Our Game. A Novel. [First US Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured endpaper maps; blind-blocked boards, cloth back gilt, uncut, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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SINCLAIR, pseud. Ronald
The Spy who Disappeared. Diary of a Secret Mission to Russian Central Asia in 1918. Introduction and Epilogue by Peter Hopkirk. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, double-page map and pictorial endpapers; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Reginald Teague-Jones took the name 'Ronald Sinclair' to avoid retribution from the Soviets following the massacre of the Baku Commissars. He lived under this alias for seventy years, his true identity being revealed only after his death in 1988 at the age of 99.This dramatic account is based on his secret diary. ALREADY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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NOWARRA Heinz J.
Russian Civil and Military Aircraft 1884-1969. Tone Paintings by W.F. Hepworth. Translations by Alan Myers. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, and very numerous photographs and illustrations throughout; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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MACMILLAN Ian
Proud Monster. [First UK Edition] FIRST UK EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published a year after the US edition. Compilation of seventy harrowing accounts.
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SEATON Albert
Stalin as Warlord. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates and maps; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, grey top, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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SHTEMENKO General Sergei M.
The Soviet General Staff at War 1941-1945. Book Two. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., with numerous plates and maps; oatmeal cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in silver and black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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KRYLOV Ivan
Soviet Staff Officer. Translated by Edward Fitzgerald. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.390.
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BEASANT John
Stalin's Silver. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome plates, small neat signature on front free endpaper; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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DUNNIGAN, ed. James F.
The Russian Front. Germany's War in the East 1941-45. [First UK Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with plates; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published a year after the US edition.
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HODGES Major Phelps
BRITMIS. A Great Adventure of the War. Being an Account of Allied Intervention in Siberia and of an Escape across the Gobi to Peking. [Uncorrected Proof Copy.] THE AUTHOR'S PROOF COPY WITH LETTERS AND EPHEMERA
8vo., Uncorrected Proof Copy; original wrappers, upper cover with paper label printed in black, a near fine copy housed in custom-made board solander case with printed paper labels. With the following additional items: (1) typescript resume on author's printed stationery of the British Military Mission in Siberia 1918-1920 (with MS corrections); (2) draft T.L. on the author's printed stationery. A request by the author for information regarding Lieut.-Col. L.C. Morley, Royal Hampshire Regiment, senior officer i/c British Military Mission at Irkutsk in 1919; (3) T.L.s. from Captain H. Flint, Royal Hampshire Regiment, responding in some detail to the author's request; (4) publisher's printed order form for the published work. Apart from the author's book we have been unable to trace any published dedicated account of BRITMIS, which accordingly remains a well-nigh forgotten component of the immediate aftermath of WWI. A UNIQUE COLLECTION NOW SAFELY PRESERVED FOR THE FUTURE.
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HUTTON J. Bernard
Commander Crabb is Alive. [Introduction by Commander A.J. Kerans. Preface by S.J. Knowles.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with plates; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a very good, bright, copy.
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CHANEY, Jr. Otto Preston
Zhukov. [Foreword by Malcolm Mackintosh. First UK Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece and plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in dustwrapper.
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GEHLEN General Reinhard
The Gehlen Memoirs. The First Full Edition of the Memoirs of General Reinhard Gehlen 1942-1971. Translated by David Irving.[First English Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with numerous plates; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Originally published in shorter form in Mainz 1971. Gehlen commanded all intelligence operations in Russia and the Balkans before delivering himself and his service to the Americans at the end of WWII. From this sprang the Gehlen Organisation whose knowledge of Russian affairs and influence on Western policy became a byword. In 1956 the Organisation was transferred to the German Federal Government and until his retirement in 1968 Gehlen remained in supreme command of the German secret service. Enser, p.398
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PORTWAY Christopher
Journey to Dana. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates and endpaper maps; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. With front panel of dustwrapper loosely inserted. UNCOMMON. Enser, p.354.
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KENNAN George F.
Russia leaves the War. Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; grey cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy.
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RUSSIAN EMBASSIES
Russian Embassies to the Georgian Kings (1589-1605). Edited with an Introduction, Additional Notes, Commentaries and Bibliography by W.E.D. Allen. Texts translated by Anthony Mango. NEAR FINE SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispieces, plates and maps (a number folding); original Society binding of blue cloth, upper board with multiple frame border in blind enclosing sailing vessel blocked in gilt, gilt back, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. Hakluyt Society, Second Series, No. 138, 139. 48. Bridges & Hair, p.290.
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CAWTHORNE Nigel
The Iron Cage. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; red cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The story of British POWs abandoned in Soviet hands.
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AKINSHA Konstantin
Stolen Treasure. The Hunt for the World's Lost Masterpieces. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Two Soviet art historians detail the vast quantity of looted art recovered from the Nazis, hidden in Russia, and missing to this day.
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BROOK-SHEPHERD Gordon
Iron Maze. The Western Secret Services and the Bolsheviks. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.234.
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RUTHERFORD Ward
The Ally. The Russian Army in World War I. [First Paperback Edition.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition thus, with plates; printed wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy.
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KOPENHAGEN Wilfried
Armored Trains of the Societ Union 1917-1945. NEAR FINE COPY
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs throughout; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
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SCHOFIELD Vice Admiral B.B.
The Arctic Convoys. [Maps and Drawings by Ronald Nydegger Jr]. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates, several charts and plans in the text, and endpaper maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Considerably updated version of the author's earlier account ('The Russian Convoys', 1964) with full use of subsequent revelations (primarily 'Ultra'). More of a reference work, if less dramatic, than the former version. Enser, p.60; Law, 0512.
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LEE Asher
The Soviet Air and Rocket Forces. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with plates; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, blue top, a near fine copy.
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DEAKIN F.W.
The Case of Richard Sorge. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates, small neat signature on front free endpaper; grey cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter browned at backstrip and fold-ins, and dust-soiled on (predominantly white) rear panel. The first complete account of one of the most famous spy stories of WWII: the German journalist who ran a Red Army spy ring in the Far East until his eventual capture and execution by the Japanese. Not recorded by Enser.
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INFIELD Glenn B
The Poltava Affair. A Russian Warning: An American Tragedy. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; brown cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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SWETTENHAM John
Allied Intervention in Russia 1918-1919 and the Part played by Canada. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Frame G2177; not recorded by Enser.
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VOSSLER Heinrich A.
With Napoleon in Russia in 1812. Translated and introduced by Walter Wallich. Illustrated by Christian-Wilhelm von Faber du Faur. [Reissue of the original edition of 1969]. FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
8vo., with 6 coloured plates (4 double-page) and endpaper map; pictorial cloth, gilt back, red top, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.
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RUSSIAN EMBASSIES
Russian Embassies to the Georgian Kings (1589-1605). Volume II. [This volume only.]. Edited with an Introduction, Additional Notes, Commentaries and Bibliography by W.E.D. Allen. Texts translated by Anthony Mango. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, plates (one in colour), coloured map and large folding map at end; original Society binding of blue cloth, upper board with multiple frame border in blind enclosing sailing vessel blocked in gilt, gilt back, backstrip sunned (but all gilt wholly legible), a very good, bright, clean copy. Hakluyt Society, Second Series, No. 139. Bridges & Hair, p.290.
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