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Toronto: The Courier Press, Limited, 1911. Book. Good. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Covers are discoloured, especially backstrip. Some endpapers are missing from both volumes. Half-title page is missing from volume 2 and is becoming detached in volume 1. Hinge are loosening. Inside of both volumes are clean..

Nendeln: Kraus, 1967. Reprint. Hardcover. Near Fine. Reprint (first Kraus edition), 1967. Cloth hardcover, 210 pp., fold-out maps, clean unmarked text, Near Fine, off-setting to the endpapers, discoloration to cloth, no dust jacket. Uncommon book.

New York: A. S. Barnes & Co., 1906. 1906, 254pp, 229pp, illus., fold-out map, black cloth, trans. by Annie Nettleton Bourne, top corners v. 1 heavlily bumped, slight soiling & shelfwear to covers, edge of fold-out map slightly worn, bookstore sticker to feps, no djs, contents clean & unmarked.. Cloth. Very Good -/No Jacket.

London: William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone,, 1625-26. One of the fullest and most important collections of voyages in the English language First edition of Purchas his Pilgrimes, with the preferred, greatly enlarged, fourth edition of the Pilgrimage; together this is the desired state of the complete set of Purchas's remarkable collection of travel and exploration narratives from ancient times up to and including the recent accounts of Virginia by John Smith. This is a most attractive set. The Pilgrimes was conceived as a continuation of the work of Richard Hakluyt - Purchas's "great predecessor in the memorializing of English travel narratives" (ODNB) - based in part on Hakluyt's remaining manuscripts, which Purchas had acquired about 1620, augmented by almost 20 years' collecting oral and written accounts of travels in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Although, as ODNB notes, "unlike Hakluyt, Purchas attempted to construct an argument upon geographical and historical evidence that was… Read More