Item #4998 The World Encompassed; and Analogous Contemporary Documents Concerning Sir Francis Drake's Circumnavigation of the World - with an Appreciation of the Achievement by Sir Richard Carnac Temple. Sir Francis DRAKE, N. M. Penzer, Sir Richard Carnack Temple.
The World Encompassed; and Analogous Contemporary Documents Concerning Sir Francis Drake's Circumnavigation of the World - with an Appreciation of the Achievement by Sir Richard Carnac Temple
The World Encompassed; and Analogous Contemporary Documents Concerning Sir Francis Drake's Circumnavigation of the World - with an Appreciation of the Achievement by Sir Richard Carnac Temple

The World Encompassed; and Analogous Contemporary Documents Concerning Sir Francis Drake's Circumnavigation of the World - with an Appreciation of the Achievement by Sir Richard Carnac Temple

London: The Argonaut Press, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Pp. 235. Illustrated with drawings and maps including a fold-out facsimile. Title page woodcut in black and beige. Index. Aqua buckram boards with stamped gilt illustration, animal vellum spine stamped with gilt titles. Blue bookmark ribbon. Edges untrimmed. First publication of the Argonaut Press, printed on Japon Vellum by Walter Lewis at the University Press, Cambridge. Number 394 of an edition limited to 975. Previous owner blind stamp on FFEP. Covers stained and sunned, corners and spine ends bumped, spine titles rubbed. Leaves clean and bright. Good+. Item #4998

A volume in the lauded series devoted to the Age of Exploration.

Price: $60.00