John Bockstoce Ed (25 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Vol. 1 only. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. Dust jacket is partially sunned/faded; dust jacket's back panel has rubbing and soil; tight, text clean. xiv, [2], 318 p., illustrated [B1:9:2].

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Volume II.

Condition: Good. Volume 170. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN:0904180247.…

Condition: Good. Volume 2. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,550grams, ISBN:0904180263.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Complete two-volume set, as photographed, private ownership - owner's neat name (the historian G D Ramsay) to ffeps; otherwise unmarked, clean, and crisp throughout; Hakluyt Second Series nos. 169 and 170, 1988. Hakluyt blue cloth with bright gilt decoration and spine printing; dust-jackets unclipped and fine. Vol I: xiv+318; vol II: vi+ 319-584 incl. appendices, bibliography and index. 6pls. and 5 maps, 1 folding. Further photographs on request.…

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. VG+ DJ. First edition thus. 2 b&w drawings, 1 map. Light rubbing to cloth edges. Gilt ship motif. Very slight creasing to dj edge.

Condition: Fair. Volume 169. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:0904180255.…

THIS VOL ONLY, super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.…

Condition: Good. Volume 1. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:0904180255.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1988 first edition hardbacks in fine condition. Both volumes in a similarly fine condition: no marks, clean and bright, tight binding, flawless blue cloth boards, almost like new. In their original, unclipped dust wrappers with a few marks to the front faces and light shelfwear. Items are dispatched the same or the following working day. Please note our excellent customer feedback.…

two volume set, hardcover octavo (VG) d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Issued as Hakluyt Society 2nd series 169-170. Light blue cloth binding with gilt logo centre front. Vol.I.: f/piece portrait of Maguire + xiv+ 318, 5 maps, 5 further ills.; Vol.II.: vi+ 319-584, 1 map, 2 ills. Both jackets unclipped, clean, tight and unworn bar two small trivial nicks top edge Vol.I internally closed (will add protective sleeves when ordered). 14 cm x 22 cm.…

Hard Cover. First Edition. F/F. 2 vols. 8vo. original blue cloth gilt (a trifle bumped at corners) in dustwrapper (slightly rubbed); pp. xvi (last blank), 1-318; vi, 319-584, , with 6 illustrations + 5 maps. Heavy item (1.2 kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A fine set.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 2 volumes. xvi+318; vi+319-584pp., portrait frontis, b/w illustrations, maps (one folding). In 1845, Sir John Franklin's expedition left England, searching for a northwest passage and vanished into the Arctic for ever. Three years later, H.M.S. Plover's was the first departure of twenty-one expeditions searching for Franklin. Rochfort Maguire's journal is the earliest account of a sustained foreign association with the Eskimos of northern Alaska. …

Hardback. (The Hakluyt Society. Second Series, No's 169-170). 2 vols. xiv, 584pp ills. & maps in text, 1988. Fine in fine DW's.

Hardcover. dj. pp. xiv, 318; 319-584. 8vo. Bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spines and decoration to front boards. Fold-out map to volume two. Light shelfwear; very good+ in very good, lightly worn dustjackets. Continuous pagination.

XIV, 318; VI, 319-584 pp. With maps and plates. Publisher's decorated cloth. A very good set. (Second Series 169-170).

Condition: As New. Hbk, oblong 8vo, illustr 131 photographs and 3 maps, dj very slightly shelfworn, otherwise fine, unclipped, and now in protective sleeve, internally appears unread and a fine, clean, tight and unmarked text, as new.

hbks 583pp illustns and a folding map ISBN: 0904180263 book plate on inside cover djs sl shelf worn now in protective sleeve excl clean tight texts.

Condition: Fine/fine. 2 vols. XIV;VI+584 pp. With 5 maps & 5 plts. Bibliogr.,index. Hardcover. Or.cloth/dustj. Hakluyt Soc., 2nd series, 169, 170.

1st edition hardbacks with dust jacket Nice copies octavo xiv + 318, 319-584pp., frontis., b/w pls., maps, appends., bibliog., index, Hakluyt Society Series II Volumes 169 & 170. Fine set.

London, 1988. 2 vols. XIV,-318, VI,-584 pp. B./w. ills. Uniform hardcovers, d./j. - Dustjackets sl. discol. on the spine. (The Hakluyt Society, 2nd series, vols 169 & 170).

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. A marvellous set complete in two volumes reporting the journal of Rochfort Maguire on the expedition to Alaska from 1852 to 1854 in the search for John Franklin. Illustrated. The reissue of Rochfort Maguire's journal on his expedition to Alaska from 1852 to 1854, spending two years at Point Barrow, aboard HMS Plover in the search for Sir John Franklin. In two volumes.Sir John Franklin's expedition left England in 1845, vanishing into the Arctic forever. ThePlover's voyage was the first constant presence of Europeans in the western Arctic, and Maguire's journal is the earliest account of a sustained foreign association with the Eskimos of northern Alaska.An important historical document, as well as a fascinating account of Europeans and Eskimos learning to cope with one another.Introduced by a detailed discussion of the history, strategy, and logistics of the Franklin Search in the western Arctic, edited by John Bockstoce.Profusely illustrated throughout with various plates and maps. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally lovely with only minor shelfwear. The dustwrapper is unclipped and excellent with only minor shelfwear. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean. Profusely illustrated throughout with plates and maps. Fine. Unnamed (illustrator). book.…

2 volumes. The Hakluyt Society, London 1988. 8vo. XIV+584 pages. Illustrations in b/w. Publisher's cloth in dust wrappers. Near fine/near fine wrappers.

1st edition dust jackets Nice Set octavo xiv + 318, vi + 319-584pp., maps, appends., bibliog., index, First of 21 expeditions to search for Franklin.