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Hardbound. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Description: Six b&w illustrations. The full subtitle reads: ''The Strange Fortunes of Sir Thomas Sherley and His Three Sons As Well in the Dutch Wars as in Muscovy, Morocco, Persia, Spain and the Indies''. Extravagant adventures of four English gentlemen on the make. As ambassadors and secret agents, pirates and government officials, army officers, debtors, and world travelers, the Sherleys were legends in their own time. ''Among them they managed to pursue almost every activity open to the European gentleman, running the gamut from crime to heroism.'' BINDING/CONDITION: black boards with gilt spine text; a Very Good book, with a Good dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped. The dust jacket is clean and bright, with very good color, but has two small scuffed areas on the spine. index, notes. 8vo (9.25 inches tall). 337 pages.

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Hardcover. Condition: Bon. Ancien livre de bibliothèque. Edition 1993. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Good. Former library book. Edition 1993. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.

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Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition. Jacket edges rubbed, top edge lightly foxed. 1967 Hard Cover. xv, 337 pp. Sir Thomas Shirley (1564 - c. 1634) was an English soldier, adventurer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1584 and 1622. His financial difficulties drove him into privateering which culminated in his capture by the Turks and later imprisonment in the Tower of London. Shirley matriculated at Hart Hall, Oxford in 1579, but left the university without taking a degree. In 1584 he was elected Member of Parliament for Steyning. He went on military service with his father and brother in the Low Countries in 1585, and later saw some in Ireland. He was knighted at Kilkenny in Ireland by the lord deputy, Sir William Fitz-William, on 26 October 1589. Shirley later came to the court. In the summer of 1591 he made a secret marriage to one of Queen Elizabeth's maids of honour and when the queen heard of it, she promptly committed him to the Marshalsea Prison. He remained in prison till the spring of 1592. In 1593 he was elected MP for Steyning again. In the same year he saw service with the rank of captain in the Low Countries again. Shirley was beginning to suffer from hopeless embarrassment because of his father's increasing financial difficulties. To secure a livelihood, he decided to fit out a privateering expedition to attack Spanish merchandise. He handed over his company at Flushing to Sir Thomas Vavasour, a relation of his wife, and in the summer of 1598 sailed into the English Channel, and seized four 'hulks' of Lubeck which were reputed to be carrying Spanish goods. He may have made some of his attacks with the Queen's ship Foresight, which he commanded in 1599. The costs and returns were high. A ship that Shirley captured while returning from San Domingo laden with sugar, was valued at £4,700. In April 1600, Shirley offered the Earl of Nottingham £600 for his tenth share in two ships which he brought into Plymouth and said he had already paid £2,000 for 'the company's thirds'. In October 1600 Shirley was brought before the Admiralty court for seizing a ship from Hamburg which had a cargo belonging to some Dutch merchants and Lord Cobham had to intervene on his behalf. He was also coming under attack from his creditors for in July 1600 some supporters of Sir Richard Weston broke into his father's house at Blackfriars and threatened the Shirleys, father and son, demanding payment. In 1601 his father required the borough seat of Steyning. Shirley was elected MP for both Bramber and Hastings and chose to sit for Hastings. In 1602 he renewed his privateering adventures, and pillaged 'two poor hamlets of two dozen houses in Portugal.' At the end of 1602 Shirley equipped two ships for a more ambitious adventure in the Levant where he aimed to strike a blow against the Ottoman Empire of Mehmed III. He was given encouragement by the Duke of Tuscany at Florence, who supported Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor in this respect. However, he made an imprudent descent on the island of Kea on 15 Jan 1603 and was captured by the Turks. He was transferred to Negropont on 20 March, and on 25 July 1603 he was carried a close prisoner to Constantinople. When news of his misfortunes reached England, James I appealed to the government of the sultan to release him. The English ambassador to the Porte, Henry Lello, used every effort on his behalf, and finally he was released on 6 December 1605, after eleven hundred dollars had been paid to his gaolers. He immediately went to Naples, where he was described by Toby Mathew, on 8 August 1606, as living there 'like a gallant.' At the end of 1606 he returned to England. Shirley was imprisoned in the Tower of London in September 1607 on a charge of illegal interference with the operations of the Levant Company. It was said that he had "overbusied himself with the traffic of Constantinople, to have brought it to Venice and to the Florentine territories." In August 1611 he was confined in the.

Soft cover. Condition: VG. J. W. Alexander, W. H. Drake, E. J. Meeker, W. J. Baer, A. B. Davies, O. H. Bacher, W. Taber, H. D. Nichols, A. Brennan, W. G. Moore, and W. Lawrence (illustrator). 10pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 9 drawings, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume XXXVIII, No. 3, July, 1889. Illustrations include an Irish child of the upper class, hand-mills in the Dublin Museum, a Finnish woman in old costume, a heavy-headed pin of inlaid bronze, an inlaid bronze brooch of the pagan epoch, a box of beaten gold, a view of Mother Graball's Bay, and a portrait of Father Maurus, the guest-master at Melleray. Housed in protective mylar report cover.

Soft cover. Condition: VG. J. W. Alexander, W. H. Drake, E. J. Meeker, W. J. Baer, A. B. Davies, O. H. Bacher, W. Taber, H. D. Nichols, A. Brennan, W. G. Moore, and W. Lawrence (illustrator). 12pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 13 drawings, first page-only was damaged and is here presented in reproduction, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume XXXVIII, No. 2, June, 1889. Illustrations include large and small horns of bronze for chase and war, a keeper of the legends of Ireland, a portrait of Turanian of Finland in the ancient dress, a beaten gold ornament supposed to be a a gorget or breast ornament of chiefs, gold ornaments supposed to be double buttons for cloaks, torques and chains for neck and waste made by twisting gold bars, two examples of armlets of beaten bronze, a statue of the so-called Harcules of the Vosges Mountains - a Keltic god overcoming a god of the Turanians, and a detail from the column of Antoninus at Rome of the kelt of the Roman period. Housed in protective mylar report cover.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Ex-library hardcover no dj (black boards) in very nice condition with the usual library markings and attachments. Text block clean and unmarked. Tight binding.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No markings.