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Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

London: Printed for Ro. Allot. Good with no dust jacket. 1627. Third Edition. Hardcover. Contemporary half leather with marbled boards. Title with engraved architectural border. [4], 309pp. Stains, spots, and edgewear to pages; few instances of old ink marginalia. P. 125-6 has a loss to edge with missing text. Numerous illustrations; lacks folding view.. Front blank present, rear blank missing. Covers worn, board edges exposed, rear board has peeling paper. ; quarto .

, [6] 309. Illustrated title page, engraved Francisco Delaram sculp. Illustrations in text including vignettes and maps.

Ro Allot, London, 1632. Third Edition. Hardcover. Poor Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: 4to. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Previous owner's book-plate laid in on front end paper. Stated third edition. Full leather, engraved title page, fold-out two-page map, 309 pages, 45 engravings in the text. Bookplate of William Wakeling Boreham on front end paper. Lacks the fold-out panorama. Leather is worn, back strip missing except for about a 2 inch piece, boards taped together with tape that is worn and soiled, text block still connected to back cover, but separated from front cover except for a tiny strip of original binding; lacks front free end paper, interior has some staining mostly in blank margins, some pages loose, but all hanging together. One of the most interesting and important travel books of the English Renaissance, this influential 17th century travel account of southern Europe… Read More

London, John Williams Junior, 1673, . . contemporary full calf, worn, gilt title lettering on red leather spine label, spine ends chipped, joints cracked but holding, front fixed endpaper chipped, interior is crisp, clean & near fine, only slight foxing in some outer margins, in good cover. . small folio [32 x 19 cm]; [iv 240 pp, extra engraved title page as frontis, double-page map of eastern Mediterranean to Caspian Sea, Arabia, Black Sea, foldout panorama of part of Constantinople, total of 50 engravings including costumes, plans, views. . Cox I, 206. Blackmer Cat 297: 'Sandys travelled to the Levant in 1610, spending a year in Turkey, Palestine and Egypt. His observations first appeared in 1615 and his text was soon regarded as a special authority on the Levant. Sandys was also interested in colonial promotion and was one of the undertakers of the third charter of the Virginia company in 1611'. Wing S680. Also described in the text are Cyprus, Crete, Malta, Sicily, the Aeolian… Read More

London: Printed for Rob. Allot, 1627. Third Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. Small folio, in contemporary tree calf, spine repaired at the extremities; with marbled endpapers and a cut bookplate to the pastedown; [4]. 309. [5] pages; illustrated with engraved title leaf, a double-page engraved map, one small folding plate, and forty-seven rather dramatic engravings, of which 44 are in-text and 3 are full page; there is an engraved portrait of George Sandys stubbed in as frontispiece.~~George Sandys, English traveller and translator, was known for his travel narratives of the Eastern Mediterranean.~~ (ESTC S114571; STC (2nd ed.) 21728). Very Good binding.

London: Printed [by Thomas Cotes] for Andrew Crooke, , 1637.. 1637 Folio. [4], 309 p, Collates A2, B-2D6. The final blank leaf is present. Engraved title page signed Delaram sculp. Double page map. Folding plate of the Sultan's seraglio. Full page plate of The historical columne in Aurat Basar, another of the sculpture of Nilus and numerous engravings throughout the text. Bound in early 20th century black half calf with marbled boards. The spine is gilt between the raised bands, with a contrasting label. There is a little rubbing to the edges and corners and light shelfwear to the marbled boards. The binder has trimmed the margins, just shaving the printed border at the foot of the map but not affecting any side notes. The blank corner of A2 is torn away without affecting any text. The title page is signed twice by an early owner Ric. Mansfeild his booke and there are a few marginalia in his hand. A sound and complete copy.

London. Printed for Ro: Allot, 1632. Folio, 272 x 180 mms., pp. [II], 309 [310 blank, 311 autographs of Sara Moone and Thomas Page 1783, 313 blank],engraved title-page followed by double page engraved map, folding panorama plate between second page of dedication and first page of text, engraved plates within text on pages 24 (map), 30, 33 (full-page), 39, 40, 41, 68, 80, [87; I2r], 95 (full-page), 96, 105, 128, 130, 133, 158 (map), 162 (floor plan), 164, 165, 166, 175, 178, 179, 180 (floor plans), 183, 184, 185, 187, 189, 190, 191, 194, 196. 198, 661 [sic for 199], 201, 231, 261, 265, 266, 258, 271, 279, 285, and 290, bound in early 18th century calf, gilt borders on covers, raised bands between gilt rules on spine, fragment of label; some fore-margins closely trimmed with occasional loss of a letter, a few spots and stains in text, lower and upper joints very slightly cracked, but a good to very good copy with "Thomas Page his Book" inscribed on top margin of the recto of the first free… Read More