Mandeville's Travels. Texts and Translations by Malcolm Letts. NEAR FINE SET IN ORIGINAL SERIES BINDING
Rare and modern books
Mandeville Sir John
Hakluyt Society,
1953
Mandeville's Travels. Texts and Translations by Malcolm Letts. NEAR FINE SET IN ORIGINAL SERIES BINDING
Rare and modern books
Mandeville Sir John
Hakluyt Society,
1953
78.20 €
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United Kingdom)
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Details
- 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.
