Product Type
Condition
Binding
Collectible Attributes
Seller Location
Seller Rating
Published by Nine Elms Books 2020-10-26, London, 2020
ISBN 10: 1910533513ISBN 13: 9781910533512
Seller: Blackwell's, London, United Kingdom
Book
hardback. Condition: New. Language: ENG.
Published by Archibald Constable and Co., Ltd., Westminster, 1903
Seller: Joseph Burridge Books, Chadwell Heath, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. ex-library. 2 volumes ; 22 cm. Contents: vol. I. 1. Captain Roger Bodenham's voyage to Scio in 1551 2. Robert Tomson, of Andover, merchant: his voyage to the West Indies and Mexico, 1556-58 3. Master Roger Bodenham: his trip to Mexico, 1564-65 4. Sir John Hawkins' first voyage to the West Indies, October 1562-September 1563 5. Sir John Hawkins' second voyage to the West Indies, 18th October 1564-20th September 1565 6. The third voyage of Sir John Hawkins, 1567-68 7. Hawkins' pretended treachery in the summer of 1571 8. Jasper Campion: The English trade to Scio, 1539-70 9. Anthony Munday: Captivity of John Fox 10. Thomas Stevens, an English Jesuit; his voyage to India by the Cape route 11. The third Hawkins' voyage, 1567-68; three narratives by survivors 12. Thomas Sanders: The unfortunate voyage of the Jesus to Tripoli, 1584 13. John Chilton: Travels in Mexico, 1568-85 14. The voyage of Thomas Cavendish round the globe, 1586-88 15. The first Englishmen who reached India overland, 1583- 89. voI. II. 1. Jan Huyghen van Linschoten; Voyage to Goa and back, 1583-92, with his account of the East Indies 2. The voyage of the Dog to the Gulf of Mexico, 1589 3. The destruction of Portuguese carracks by English seamen, 1592-94 4. Captain Nicholas Downton; The sinking of the carrack, The five wounds 5. Strange and wonderful things happened to Richard Hasleton, 1582-92 6. The antiquity of the trade with English ships into Levant 7. Edward Wright, mathematician; The voyage of the Earl of Cumberland to the Azores, etc., 1589 8. A fight at sea by the Dolphin of London, against five of the Turks' men-of-war, January 12, 1616[-17] 9. Sir Francis Drake revived; a narrative of the Nombre de Dios' expedition of 1572-73 10. Nineteen years' captivity in the higlands of Ceylon, sustained by Captain Robert Knox, March 1660-October 1679 11. A relation of the retaking of the island of Sainta Helena Notes: Some of the tracts have special t.p "The texts contained in the present volume are reprinted with very slight alterations from the 'English garner' issued in eight volumes (1877-1890, London, 8vo.) by Professor Arber. The contents of the original 'Garner' have been rearranged and . classified, under the general editorial supervision of Mr. Thomas Seccombe. Certain lacunae have been filled by the interpolation of fresh matter."--Publisher's note: v. 1, p.[iv].
Published by One from 18 Perryn Road Acton W London. 2 April The other with the same address on letterhead of the East London College University of London Mile End Road E. 21 October no year, 1908
Manuscript / Paper Collectible
Both items in fair condition, on lightly-aged paper. ONE: 3pp., 12mo. Bifolium. The letter begins: 'Dear Mr Lane, | Conscientious research in Titmarshian activities seems to point to the fact that you owe to the club the sum of 22/- for two dinners in October 1907.' He continues on this theme for a while, before turning to Reynolds: 'I am very glad to hear that you are going to bring out the Holy Mountain & Poor Mans House by Reynolds. As partly responsible for the suggestion of the Mountain & the location at Acton, I take some interest in the book & also in its author. A good many others do the same & I think it should attract enough preliminary notice to attract some public attention to a kind of satire, rather vitriolic, which a large populace may conceivably fasten on with voracity.' He regards the book as 'somewhat experimental', the 'Poor Man's House' having 'more solid & artistic qualities. I cannot help thinking that there are possibilities of literary achievement quite out of the common in S. R.' The final paragraph describes a book he has acquired. TWO: 2pp., 12mo. Bifolium. He thanks him for sending 'A Poor Man's House', of which he has 'written glowingly in my two little causeries, one in The Reader's Review, the other in the Country House'. He asks him to 'repeat the experiment' by sending another book, before commenting: 'Reynolds far exceeds my anticipation & I am proud with a certain reflected glory in having contributed before any one else to his being Deterré as Pope said of Dr. Johnson. I hope your sporting support of him will be justified & I certainly think it will.' Reynolds' entry in the Oxford DNB notes Seccombe's influence on him. The Titmarsh Club was a society formed in appreciation of the works of Thackeray.