Author: Froude, James Anthony,
Title: ENGLISH SEAMEN in the Sixteenth Century.
Description: George Harrap, London, 1925, 1st in imprint, 255pp, half tone frontis port. of the author by S. J. Robbins, previously published by Longmans Green, navy blue full leather lettered and decorated in gilt at spine, lettered, decorated and bordered in gilt upper board, upper edge gilt with decorative headband, marbled endpapers, fore-and lower edges uncut, in 'The Harrap Library' series, the text of 9 lectures delivered at Oxford 1893/4, on John Hawkins, Drake's circumnavigation, the West Indies Expedition, the Attack on Cadiz, etc., a little rubbed at extrems., spine sunned and sl. nicked at tail, fore and lower edges foxed, presentation plate on front pastedown, somew faint foxing to prelims., no dustwrapper, very good,

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