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Mandeville Sir John

Mandeville's Travels. Texts and Translations by Malcolm Letts. NEAR FINE SET IN ORIGINAL SERIES BINDING

Hakluyt Society, 1953

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Year of publication
1953
Author
Mandeville Sir John
Publishers
Hakluyt Society
Keyword
travel, hakluyt society, mandeville, john mandeville
Languages
English

Description

2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with illustrations and maps; original Society binding of blue cloth, upper boards with multiple frame border in blind enclosing sailing vessel blocked in gilt, gilt backs, uncut, a near fine set. With personal bookplate on front paste-down. Vol. I: The text of BL Egerton MS 1982 with an essay on the cosmographical ideas of Mandeville's day by E.G.R. Taylor; Vol. II: The Paris text (in French, with translation), the Bodleian text, and extracts from other versions. COMPLETE SETS IN THIS CONDITION ARE SCARCE. Hakluyt Society, Second Series, Nos. 101, 102. Bridges & Hair, p.283.
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