Maundevile (42 results)

Hardcover (Library buckram). Ex-library, with the usual ownership markings and withdrawn stamp; backstrip and top edge of covers sun-darkened; covers lightly scuffed; endpapers partially browned; otherwise very good condition. . 414p. Illus. Frontispiece.

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Good Condition. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Binding quite rubbed, little soiling, back strip mostly detached. Little shaken in the binding, paper little age toned, not brittle but scattered light foxing. Private library emboss on fly leaves, name in ink on same. Purports to be factual travels of a 14th century gadabout but probably entirely spurious, save that it lifts from various accounts of genuine travels. Size: 8vo. xxx + 414. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 4 pounds or less. Category: Fiction; Travel & Places. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. With owner's inscription inside cover. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Re-bound by library. Brown cloth medium 8vo. Gilt lettering on back strip. Frontispiece and illustrated title page. Marginal pencil markings on a few pages otherwise clean and clear. Moderate foxing. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,850grams, ISBN:

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Illus. Edited and illustrated by Arthur Layard. Overweight, No International shipping, No Expedited shipping. Standard shipping only. Shelf wear/rubbing. Fading to spine and cover edges. Rubbing to title block on spine. Hinges starting. Interior pages are age tanned/age stained, no markings found in book. > Language: English | > Size: 8vo - over 7 3/4 in - 9 3/4 in Tall | > Media/Binding: Buckram |.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Arthur Layard (illustrator). A pictorial board Hardcover, lavishly decorated in bright gold on burgundy boards with a nautical scene on the front board and coats of arms on the spine and back board. Ex. library. 444 rough cut pages, gilt edge on the top surface, index, illustrated with tissue guarded frontispiece and b/w drawings throughout. This book is in extraordinary condition, having had minimal handling. There is just a little very light edge and corner wear. You are unlikely to see another in this excellent condition. Contents clean, tight and bright. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Arthur Layard (illustrator). First Thus. First Thus edition large 8vo, in red with decorative gilt to spine, gilt page tops, minor bumps and wear to extremities, patchy fading to fore edges, front hinge just starting, binding else sound if spread occasionally two signatures inside front, a note to fep and another within preface, browned eps, very good page condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited. Limited edition of 350 of which this is hand numbered 324. A Very Good copy. 8vo., 254 pp., bound in tan paper with title on spine. Spine and edges are browned; tips, edges and spine rubbed; end papers toned, otherwise text is clean and bright.

Reprint. Hinges cracked & reglued, but fragile; pages a little browned; spine bumped at head & foot, with slight wear to cloth. With an introduction, additional notes and glossary by J.O.Halliwell. Used - Good. Good hardback in green cloth with gilt Used - Good. Good hardback in green cloth with gilt.

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PF. Condition: New.

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Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Limited. Hardback, paper covered boards. 21.5 x 14.5cm. 254pp. Woodcut illustrations to text. Number 240 of an edition of 350 copies. Spine slightly discoloured, some wear to extremities. A few spots to exterior but contents pretty clean. With tattered remains of the glassine wrapper. Reprinted from the English edition of 1568.

8vo, 254pp., one of 350 copies, orig. white publishers boards.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Scarce. Maundevile's Travels. Small b/w illustrations within text. 326 pages. Green decorative cloth cover with embossed designs on front and back, gold gilted titles on spine and gold logo on front. Book is in fair condition, front cover is very loose, sticthing has come away, spine is loose, a few front pages have detached, cloth cover has frayed at top edge of spine, overall book is loose and pages have yellowed. Fair/--. Book.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint of 1725 ed. Introduction and notes by J O Halliwell. pp326. Sir John Mandeville's travels in the original. The unaltered spelling makes reading entertaining. Pen drawings. Library rebinding in black buckram, gold titles, so very solid. Very lightly read! Minor library marks.

Full-Leather. Condition: Very Good. xvi [viii] 384 [1] [6]pp, contemporary panelled calf, replacement but not new red morocco label, rebacked and recornered, rubbed with some cracking of the leather surface to edges, some light spotting (particularly at the ends), paper lightly browned, 8vo (13.5x22.5cm), ESTC T100821.

Full-Leather. Condition: Good. First Edition. xvi [viii] 384 [1] [6]pp, title red and black, early 19th century red straight-grain morocco gilt, joints and extremities rubbed and scuffed (spine heavily so), gilt edges, lightly browned throughout, spotting at the beginning and end, armorial bookplate (Gordon Edward Dawkins KCB) on front pastedown, printed by William Bowyer whose records show 350 copies printed, 8vo (14x23.5cm), ESTC T100822.

Octavo, green blind-stamped cloth (hardcover), gil tletters & decorations, xvii + 326 pp + ads. Professionally rebound, with covers & deteriorated spine preserved; otherwise, Fine. Travel, Holy Land, Middle East, European History, Lore.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Original wood engravings within the text (illustrator). A Very Good, clean copy (facsimile) of this famous voyager's work in a Limited Edition of 350 copies (copy 194) printed at the University Press, Oxford in the 600th anniversary year of the first printing in 1332. This copy is printed on soft white paper, clean throughout, vertical chain lines, no marking or inscriptions. Top edge gilt. Light coloured boards (with the appropriate appearance of vellum), blind double ruled spine segments and black text. Inevitably, the boards are marked - the spine is darkened and points bumped. The binding is strong and square. Immaculate printing, no foxing or discolouring.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Original red sand grain cloth with gilt titleing. Bevelled boards with brown endpapers. xxxi, 326ppgs. Spine chipped top & bottom, corners slightly worn, otherwise no foxing and in very good condition. "Reprinted from the Edition of A.D. 1725 with an Introduction, Additional Notes and Glossary by J.O. Halliwell". Claims to be an actual & careful reprint of the edition of 1839, also edited by Halliwell. Many facsimile wood-cut illustrations by F.W. Fairholt. Still a lovely copy of a scarce book of medieval travels in the Holy Land and India.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Later half-leather, scuffed. Raised and gold embossed spine. Hinges tight and text clean with numerous simulated woodcuts. 19th century owner's signature, "Wm. C. Pennington", appears twice on title page, quite unobtrusively.

Hardcover. A hugely popular book for centuries and considered partly a high spirited invention. Possibly originally mostly written by a Liege physician, a la Barbe, in about mid 14th century. A beautifully gilt decorated edition with a naval scene on the upper cover. 25 full page black & white drawings and many tail pieces and vignettes etc. by Layard. A touch of bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Also three 1cm sq discolourations at the place where the webbing for the binding lies beneath the front paste-down by the joint. The fore-edge has a touch of rubbing. But altogether a lovely copy. Very good indeed.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. 1839 Hardcover. Ex-Library. Text is clean, Binding is strong. B & W illustrations. Rough cut pages. Dark green cloth cover, stamped borders, small gold illustration on front. Black cloth tape over spine, inside hinges re-enforced with tape. Cover is worn, uneven fading, rubbed corners and edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. The Voiage and Travaile of Sir John Maundeville, Kt. Which Treateth of the Way to Hierusalem; and of Marvayles of Inde, with other Islands and Countryes. Reprinted from the Edition of A.D. 1725. With an Introduction, Additional Notes, and Glossary, by J. O. Halliwell, Esq, F.S.A., F.R.A.S. Woodcut frontispiece, title-page vignette and woodcuts throughout the text. 8vo. [217 x 132 x 23 mm]. xvii, [ii], vi-xii, 326 pp. Contemporary binding by J. Kelly of London (with his printed slip on the front flyleaf) of half calf, marbled paper sides, the spine divided into five panels, with wide gilt tooled bands, lettered in the second panel on a dark red label, the others tooled in blind to a lattice pattern, drab endleaves, red sprinkled edges. (Short crack at the head of the upper joint, slightly rubbed). A very good, clean copy in an attractive binding. It is signed on a small printed slip "Bound by J. Kelly, 15, Gower Place". John Kelly is listed at this address, near Euston Square, from 1830 until 1846.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. "Now publish'd entire from an Original MS. in the COTTON LIBRARY." Attractive 8vo. Contemporary tree-calf, later rebacked in tan calf. Title-page in red and black. (xxiv) + (391)pps. Later endpapers. Some foxing/light soiling to text. Very Good. Celebrated account of travels in the Middle East & India.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Reprint. xxiv, 384, viii pp. Recased in leather. Raised bands and periphery of boards decorated with gilt. Title page printed in red and black. Bookplate inside front board. Several incidents of peeling and sticker remnant to decorated front endpaper. Small, faint numeric ink stamp at bottom of title page. Call numbers on backstrip scarcely visible. Moderate wear. Binding firm.

First edition with Halliwell's introduction and additions. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece, vignette title-page and many illustrations throughout the text in the style of medieval woodcuts. 8vo, publisher's original green cloth, the upper cover with large coat of arms in gilt and additional decoration in blind, blind decoration on the lower cover and in gilt with gilt lettering on the spine. vxii, xii, 326, 2 ads pp. An unusually handsome and well preserved copy, as fine and highly unusual for a book of the period, especially as this copy is preserved in its original early cloth binding. FIRST EDITION WITH HALLIWELL'S INTRODUCTION AND ADDITIONS AND A BEAUTIFULLY PRESERVED COPY. 'In his preface the compiler calls himself a knight, and states that he was born and bred in England, of the town of St Albans. Although the book is real, it is widely believed that 'Sir John Mandeville' himself was not. Common theories point to a Frenchman by the name of Jehan a la Barbe (or other possibilities discussed below). The most recent scholarly work suggests that The Travels of Sir John Mandeville was "the work of Jan de Langhe, a Fleming who wrote in Latin under the name Johannes Longus and in French as Jean le Long."] Jan de Langhe was born in Ypres early in the 1300s and by 1334 had become a Benedictine monk at the abbey of Saint-Bertin in Saint-Omer which was about 20 miles from Calais. After studying law at the University of Paris, de Langhe returned to the abbey and was elected abbot in 1365. He was a prolific writer and avid collector of travelogues, right up to his death in 1383. John de Mandeville crossed the sea on 1322; had traversed by way of Turkey (Asia Minor), Armenia the Little (Cilicia) and the Great, Tartary, Persia, Syria, Arabia, Egypt upper and lower, Libya, great part of Ethiopia, Chaldea, Amazonia, India the Less, the Greater and the Middle, and many countries about India; had often been to Jerusalem, and had written in Romance as more generally understood than Latin. In the body of the work, we hear that he had been at Paris and Constantinople; had served the Sultan of Egypt for a long time in his wars against the Bedouin, and had been offered, and declined, a princely marriage and a great estate on condition of renouncing Christianity, and had left Egypt under Sultan Melech Madabron (al-Muzaffar Sayf-ad-Din Hajji I who reigned in 1346-1347); had been at Mount Sinai, and had visited the Holy Land with letters under the great seal of the sultan, which gave him extraordinary facilities; had been in Russia, Livonia, Kraków, Lithuania, "en roialme daresten" (Dristra or Silistra in Bulgaria), and many other parts near Tartary, but not in Tartary itself; had drunk of the Well of Youth at Polombe (Quilon on the Malabar coast), and still seemed to feel the better for it; had taken astronomical observations on the way to Lamory (Sumatra), as well as in Brabant, Germany, Bohemia and still farther north; had been at an isle called Pathen in the Indian Ocean; had been at Cansay (Hangchow-fu) in China, and had served the emperor of China for fifteen months.had been through a haunted valley, which he places near "Milstorak" (i.e. Malasgird in Armenia); had been driven home against his will in 1357 by arthritic gout; and had written his book as a consolation for his "wretched rest".' Copies of this work are scarce in the marketplace.

London: O.U.P., 1932. 8vo. Orig. parchment paper boards (discoloured). T.e.g. other edges uncut. (254pp.). With title-vign., and woodcut text-illusts. Reprint of 1568 edition, with additions from the 1725 edition. Limited to 350 copies of which this is No. 261. Bookplate on front endpaper.

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