Letts Malcolm Translator (9 results)

First Edition. Good copy in the original publisher's gilt-blocked and blind-bordered cloth, edges very slightly toned. Some wear and tear as with age. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. Physical description; xv, 282 pages ; 25 cm. Subjects; Civilization, Medieval. Courts and courtiers. Civilization, Medieval. Burgundy (France) Court and courtiers. Burgundy (France) Civilization. Bourgogne (France) Civilisation. France Burgundy. Burgundy Social conditions. Burgundy (France) Courts and courtiers. Burgundy (France) History. Burgundy (France) Court and courtiers. Burgundy (France) Civilization. Genres; Bibliography. Illustrated. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1957. Very good. Octavo. 196 pp. Blue cloth with gilt titling to spine and ship to front board. Issued by The Hakluyt Society (Second Series No. CVIII). Ex-library with the expected stamps, stickers and markings. Withdrawn stamp to rear endpaper. Text, illustrations and maps are bright and clean. A tight copy overall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. (Letts, Malcolm) Pero Tafur, Travels and Adventures, Travels and Adventures, 1435-1439. Harper & Brothers, 1926. 261pp. Numerous illustrations. Decorated publisher's cloth. Nice sturdy copy, though the hinge covers have split though the hingers are intact. Also the spine decoaration and title have faded to the point where it cannot be read. Still a readable, useful, sturdy copy in GOOD condition. 714.3.

First Edition. Good copy in the original publisher's gilt-blocked and blind-bordered cloth, edges very slightly toned. Some wear and tear as with age. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. Physical description; xv, 282 pages ; 25 cm. Subjects; Civilization, Medieval. Courts and courtiers. Civilization, Medieval. Burgundy (France) Court and courtiers. Burgundy (France) Civilization. Bourgogne (France) Civilisation. France Burgundy. Burgundy Social conditions. Burgundy (France) Courts and courtiers. Burgundy (France) History. Burgundy (France) Court and courtiers. Burgundy (France) Civilization. Genres; Bibliography. Illustrated. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 191pp. Illustrated with woodcuts which appeared in the orig. ed. The Argonaut Series.

Hardcover. Condition: vg. Reprint. Quarto. XX, 191, [1]pp. Original decorative wrappers over red cloth, with printer's device on front cover of wrappers, on spine of binding and title-page. Title-page in red and black lettering within elaborate frame. Fascinating work being an account of Hans Staden's captivity among cannibals. This book provids detailed descriptions of Tupinambá life and customs, illustrated by woodcuts. However, the aspect of this work that received the most attention, from the time of publication up to the present, was cannibalism. Staden claimed that the Tupinambá were cannibals, gave vivid eyewitness accounts of the killing, preparing and eating of war captives. According to one anecdote, the Indians at one point gave him a delicious soup; after finishing his dinner, he found in the bottom of the cauldron some small skulls, which he later found out to be those of the children in his choir. Some scholars have challenged the book's reliability, arguing that Staden invented its sensational accounts of cannibalism. Others defend the book as an important and reliable ethnohistorical source. Head and tail of wrappers slightly chipped. Scarce and sporadic foxing throughout. Wrappers in overall fair to good, binding and interior in very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 2 volumes: lxiii+225 pages with frontispiece, 2 maps (one folding); xii+[226]-554 pages with frontispiece and 2 other illustrations and index. Octavo (9" x 6") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and gilt pictorial stamped representation of the ship Victoria on the cover and blind stamped ruled edges. Volume one the text of British Library Egerton MS 1982, with an essay on the cosmographical ideas of Mandeville's day by E. G. R. Taylor. The main pagination of this and the following volume is continuous. Volume two The Paris text (French, with translation by Malcolm Letts), the Bodleian text, and extracts from other versions. Works issued by the Hakluyt Society, Second Series, Numbers 101 and 102. First edition Sir John Mandeville, (flourished 14th century), purported author of a collection of travelers' tales from around the world, The Voyage and Travels of Sir John Mandeville, Knight, generally known as The Travels of Sir John Mandeville. The tales are selections from the narratives of genuine travelers, embellished with Mandeville's additions and described as his own adventures. The actual author of the tales remains as uncertain as the existence of the English knight Sir John Mandeville himself. The book originated in French about 1356 57 and was soon translated into many languages, an English version appearing about 1375. The narrator Mandeville identifies himself as a knight of St. Albans. Incapacitated by arthritic gout, he has undertaken to stave off boredom by writing of his travels, which began on Michaelmas Day (September 29) 1322, and from which he returned in 1356. The 14th-century chronicler Jean d'Outremeuse of Liège claimed that he knew the book's true author, a local physician named Jean de Bourgogne, and scholars afterward speculated that d'Outremeuse himself wrote the book. Modern historical research debunked the d'Outremeuse tradition but has yielded few more positive conclusions, and the actual author of the Travels remains unknown. It is not certain whether the book's true author ever traveled at all, since he selected his materials almost entirely from the encyclopaedias and travel books available to him, including those by William of Boldensele and Friar Odoric of Pordenone. The author enriched these itineraries with accounts of the history, customs, religions, and legends of the regions visited, culled from his remarkably wide reading, transforming and enlivening the originals by his literary skill and genuine creative imagination. The lands that he describes include the realm of Prester John, the land of darkness, and the abode of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, all legendary. Although in his time "Mandeville" was famous as the greatest traveler of the Middle Ages, in the ensuing age of exploration he lost his reputation as a truthful narrator. His book, notwithstanding, has always been popular and remains extremely readable. Condition: Corners bumped, previous owner's name to front end paper volume 1, some occasional under lining and notes to front end paper in pencil else a very good set.

Letter from Malcolm Letts loosely inserted. xxxv, 325 pages, illustrations : 23 cm. Series: Hakluyt Society, 2d ser., no. 94.

London, Hakluyt Society, 1953. 8vo. 2 volumes in the original blue publisher's cloth. Uncut and some leaves unopened. Gilt lettering to spines and gilt stamped ship to front boards. A fine and clean copy. LXIII, (1), 223 pp. + 1 map and frontispiece depicting Sir John Mandeville's shield Pp. XI, (1), 224-554, (1). (Work Issued by The Hakluyt Society, Second Series: Vik. 101 & 102)Sir John Mandeville is the named claimed by the compiler of The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, an account of his supposed travels, written in Anglo-Norman French, and first circulated between 1357 and 1371.It is highly unreliable and despite of the fantastical nature of the described nature of the travels it describes it was used as a work of reference for Christopher Columbus in his travel descriptions.