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Barrow, John. Memoirs of the Naval Worthies of Queen Elizabeth's Reign;. John Murray, London, 1845.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: good hardcover in green decorated boards (spine has wear, tear along edge, small chips missing; previous owner signature); internally pages white and clean; SATISFACTION GUARANTEED; Size: 6 x 9"
Seller: P.C. Schmidt, Bookseller, Kettering, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$61.14 + shipping
Description: octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, blind-stamped rule and design to boards, xvi + 495pp + 16pp adverts, G+ (water damage marks to spine, boards and outer pages, heavy wear to extremities including small chips and closed tears to head and tail of spine, gutters cracked, ink owner's details to fep, foxing, half-title torn), lacks d/w
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Barrow, John. Memoirs of the Naval Worthies of Queen Elizabeth's Reign. John Murray, London, 1845.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Nicely rebound in tan and brown buckram, text clean, binding solid. A well-preserved copy. Foxing to pages sporadically throughout the book. Very small stain to the back cover. Gilt lettering to the spine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Seller: Montreal Books, Westmount, QC, Canada
Barrow, John. Memoirs of the Naval Worthies of Queen Elizabeth's Reign. John Murray, London, 1845.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Nicely rebound in tan and brown buckram, text clean, binding solid. A well-preserved copy. Foxing to pages sporadically throughout the book. Very small stain to the back cover. Gilt lettering to the spine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Seller: RPBooks, Champlain, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$160.35 + shipping
Description: xvi, 495pp, [1]. With a half-title. Contemporary gilt-tooled brown morocco, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed. Hinges exposed, occasional spotting, contemporary bookplate of William Morris Reade to FEP, recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to FFEP, contemporary inked gift inscription to front blank fly-leaf: 'William Morris Reade, from his sincere friend, Horace Andrew Walpole; on his leaving Eton: Easter, 1847'. A handsomely bound copy of the first edition of promoter of exploration and author Sir John Barrow's (1764-1848) valuable and authoritative history of Elizabethan naval exploration, with chapters on figures including including Sir Martin Frobisher, Sir John Hawkins, Sir Francis Drake, and Sir Walter Raleigh. In 1844 Barrow was appointed head of the Admiralty record office in recognition of his development of a system for recording naval correspondence and of his rescue of valuable Admiralty documents dating back to the Elizabethan period that feature prominently in the present work. Size: 8vo
Seller: Antiquates Ltd - ABA, ILAB, Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: xvi,495pp. Half title. Contemporary black calf with gilt filet border by W.H. Dalton, with stamped signature on front pastedown. Joints rubbed, with upper board beginning to split at head of spine. Light wear to extremities. Front hinge cracked. Near fine internally. Overall, about very good. The author's own copy, with his armorial bookplate on front pastedown. A valuable history of Elizabethan naval exploration, with chapters on important explorers including Sir Martin Frobisher, Captain John Davis, Sir John Hawkins, Sir Francis Drake, Sir Richard Hawkins, and Sir Walter Raleigh. A uniquely interesting copy, since the author and original owner, Sir John Barrow (1764-1848), was an important early- nineteenth-century British geographer and explorer in his own right. Earlier in life, he travelled as secretary to Earl Macartney, ambassador to China and governor of the Cape of Good Hope colony. As second secretary of the admiralty (1804-6, 1807-48), Barrow encouraged the arctic expeditions of John Ross and William Parry. He was one of the founders of the Royal Geographical Society in 1830, and Point Barrow, Cape Barrow, and Barrow Strait were named in his honor. COLUMBIA ENCYCLOPEDIA, Sixth Edition, "Sir John Barrow."
Seller: William Reese Company - Americana, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.