Search Results: encyclopedia of exploration 1800 to 1850 by howgego raymond john

Potts Point, NSW, Australia, Hordern House, 2004.. FIRST EDITION. Large 4º (28.8 x 22 cm.), publisher's gilt-stamped Saifu cloth with illustrated dust jacket, 3 silk place markers. As new. xi, 690 pp. *** FIRST EDITION. Second volume of this massive, extremely useful publication, filling what had been a reference lacuna. It contains 732 articles in about 700,000 words, with numerous cross-references. There are indexes of ships and persons, as well as bibliographies. ***

Sydney, Hordern House. 2004. Original publisher's light-green cloth hardback, gilt lettering spine and frontcover, pictorial dustjacket, thick 4to: xij, 690pp., 701 articles / entries, notes & references, illustrations. Very fine copy - as new. Still shrink-wrapped., Volume 2: Encyclopedia of Exploration.

Sydney: Hordern House, 2010-13. . Five volumes, quarto, bound in cloth with colour dust jackets. .xv, 1168 + xi, 690 + x, 724 + xii, 1047 pp,. and xii, 544pp. A fine unused set.. First editions. The vast scope of the Encyclopedia of Exploration makes it a work unlike any other in its combination of historical, biographical and bibliographical data. It includes a catalogue of all known expeditions, voyages and travels from the earliest times to the year 1940, as well as biographical information of the travellers themselves, which places them in their historical context. Over fifteen years in the making, the Encyclopedia of Exploration has been a massive undertaking. The five volumes include over 5100 articles in approximately 4203 pages, some 4 million words. Within the text itself there are many thousands of cross-references between articles, and the work is made even more accessible through extensive bibliographical citations to accompany the articles.Raymond Howgego is an independent researcher,… Read More