Author: PURVES, DAVID LAING 1838-1873.
Title: The English Circumnavigators: The Most remarkable Voyages Round The World By English Sailors. With A Preliminary Sketch Of Their Lives And Discovories. Edited With Notes Etc. Etc. By Daivd Laing Purves .
Description: London: William P. Nimmo, 14 King William Street, Strand; And Edinburgh, 1874 . 0. A very good original full leather binding. 7.5" x 5.0" x 2.25". Thick 8vo. pp.831. Polished brown morocco, boards lightly rubbed and bumped. Spine rubbed with gilt titles. Orange marbled endpapers. Note on brown paper laid-down to front free-endpaper: "In Remembrance of Nov 24, 1928.. William Lawrenson.." Engraved frontis (lightly foxed), facing an engraved title-page (lightly foxed), with a vignette of Drake's coat of arms. Followed by a printed title-page. Clean English text throughout, just light spotting to the folded maps. Contents include: "The World Encompassed.. Sir Francis Drake"; "A New Voyage Round The World.. William Dampier"; "A Voyage Round The World.. George Anson"; "Cook's Voyages Round The World.." Each section with a folding coloured map and separate title page [ The title-page is absent to; "Cook's Voyages"] . A very good copy of this scarce book.

Keywords: 47842 Purves, David Laing William P. Nimmo the English Circumnavigators Exploration: : 19th Century


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