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1887293400London: Pickering 1887. hardcover. near fine. Edited Annotated and Illustrated in Facsimile by John Ashton. 289 pages with untrimmed edges. 4to Original pale blue boards rubbed and somewhat discolored with vellum spine. London: Pickering 1887. Limited edition. Endpapers a bit foxed otherwise a beautiful pristine copy.<br/> <br/> Number 28 of 100 copies printed in Large Paper. Based on a reprint of the unique Pynson edition the oldest English printed version extant in the Grenville Library of the British Museum. ".Grenville and Dibdin believe the Pynson edition to be earlier than that of Wynken de Worde's" See Cox I p. 319.<br/> <br/> Pickering unknown
1839elala1545London: Edward Lumley 1839. 1839. 8vo. pp. 1 p.l. xvii v-xii 326. wood-engraved frontis. & title vignette & numerous woodcut text illus. contemporary calf rebacked with gilt spine mounted. armorial bookplate of J.A.Swan. First printed by Wynken de Worde in 1499 and long considered to be an authentic and valuable account of travels in Egypt Palestine Tartary India and the East Indies the present work is now known to be a spurious relation compiled from various sources by one Jehan dOutremeuse a citizen of Liège. The present edition is based on the authoritative edition of 1725. cfCox I p. 319. Hardcover. London: Edward Lumley, 1839. hardcover
1727244219London: Woodman Lyon and C. Davis 1727. Reissue of the 1725 edition with cancel title-page. xvi 8 384 8 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Half dark brown polished calf and cloth red leather spine label. Title and final leaf backed title page a little toned otherwise a clean crisp copy. Reissue of the 1725 edition with cancel title-page. xvi 8 384 8 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Translation of a French manuscript of Mandeville's Itinerarium. and for centuries a standard book for travellers. "Mandeville is said to have set out on his travels in 1322 and after visiting Egypt Palestine Tartary India the Indian isles etc. returned home in 1355. His death is set at 1371." Cox I 319. This is the second issue of the "best English edition" Lowndes and "the completest edition up to date" Cox. Woodman, Lyon and C. Davis unknown
183926571London: Edward Lumley 1839. 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.<br> 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.<br> 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.<br> 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".'<br> Copies of this work are scarce in the marketplace. Edward Lumley hardcover
1727431G0236London: Woodman Lyon and C. Davis 1727. Book. Good. Hardcover. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 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. Woodman, Lyon and C. Davis Hardcover
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1696H2NF22FJOYPMLondon: Richard Chiswell Benjamin Walford Matthew Wotton George Conyers printing probably shared by 2 printers one possibly Samuel Roycroft 1696. Gold-tooled red goatskin morocco by Robert Riviere in London ca. 1875/80 with 5 false bands on the spine each board with a double frame of double and triple fillets and 2 different sets of 4 corner pieces author and title in gold in 2nd and 3rd of 6 spine compartments the others with gold-tooled decorations and the date and place of publication at the foot gold-tooled turn-ins gold fillets on board edges straight-combed endpapers gilt edges stamped on the back of the free marbled endleaf in sans-serif capitals: "Bound by Riviere". 4to 19.5 x 15.5 cm. With a woodcut ship on the title-page with a griffin on the sail and about 60 woodcut illustrations in the text mostly about 5.5 x 8 cm plus about 10 repeats each with a thick-thin border. Set in textura types with incidental roman and italic. A rare 17th-century English edition with about 60 different woodcut illustrations of a classic and partly fictional 14th-century account of travels presented as voyages of Sir John Mandeville through Turkey Egypt Ethiopia Syria Persia Arabia India and the East Indies. It was originally written in French and is thought to have been compiled from various sources by Jehan d'Outremeuse 1338-1400 of Liege. It includes many well-known stories and illustrations of monstrous people and animals in exotic lands: a man with only one enormous foot that he can use as a parasol a dog-headed man a man with his face in his chest a girl who turns into a dragon griffins nine-meter giants ants that gather gold diamonds that mate and give birth to baby diamonds and much more that spoke to the imagination. The book also includes genuine descriptions of the regions covered and gave many Europeans their first notions of the Near East Middle East India and East Indies. The part on Arabia includes an account of the birth of Mohammed.With early owner's inscription and bookplates along with a loosely inserted signed autograph letter ca. 1900. 8 leaves with their margins extended at the fore-edge and foot the title-page and last page somewhat worn and dirty but further in good condition with a few minor fedects. The spine is slightly faded but the binding is still very good.l Arber Term catalogues II p. 593 item 8; ESTC R217088 5 copies; J.O. Halliwell ed. Voiage and travaile of Sir John Maundevile 1866 p. xvi item 2 from the Grenville library; Wing M417 same 5 copies; cf. for the story in general: Cambridge history of English literature 1976 pp. 78-87. Richard Chiswell, Benjamin Walford, Matthew Wotton, George Conyers, [printing probably shared by 2 printers, one possibly Samuel unknown
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112964Venice Manfredo Bonelli 26 January 1505. . 8vo; title within decorative woodcut border 4-line decorative woodcut initial to A2 2-line initials elsewhere some toning and soiling small repair to fore-edge of title bookplate to front pastedown; later full vellum gilt lettering to spine on brown morocco title-piece minor worming to extremities and endpapers; collation: A-EE4; ff. 112.<br /> Rare 16th-century Italian edition of the world's first best-selling travel book. <br /><br />Although largely fictitious the journeys are based upon travellers' tales extant in the fourteenth century and as such are of considerable interest. Purchas considered Sir John Mandeville to be akin to Marco Polo in terms of importance 'the greatest Asian Traveller that ever the World had' Pilgrimes III p65. His travels take the reader through Turkey Armenia Persia Tartary Arabia India and China and gave many Europeans their first taste of the Near and Middle East as well as the East Indies. <br /><br />Little is known of Mandeville himself however he claims to be an English Knight who travelled between 1322 and 1356 serving under both the Sultan of Egypt and the Great Khan. Although traditionally attributed to Mandeville in reality the work was an English version of a text known as Itinerarium of which the original ascribed to Jean d'Outremeuse was probably written in Anglo-Norman French. All pre-1725 editions of Mandeville are scarce and editions such as this in a vernacular language particularly so. We have been able to locate just one other copy held at the British Library in London.<br /> USTC 839970. Venice, Manfredo Bonelli, 26 January 1505. hardcover
17251299141725. First Edition. MANDEVILLE John. The Voiage and Travaile of Sir John Maundevile Kt. Which Treateth of the Way to Hierusalem; and of Marvayles of Inde with Other Ilands and Countryes. London: Printed for J. Woodman and D. Lyon and C. Davis 1725. Octavo contemporary calf sympathetically rebacked raised bands. $5000.First edition first issue large paper copy one of only 350 copies printed of the definitive English translation of a fantastical medieval travel narrative that helped shape European thought on the Near Middle and Far East. One of the most popular travelogues of the Middle Ages Mandeville's Travels describes a 34-year-long voyage by a pseudonymous 14th-century English knight who allegedly journeyed from St. Albans to the Holy Land Egypt Arabia India Cathay Tartary and the realm of Prester John. The text is largely fictitious drawn from a variety of unreliable sources and the actual compiler is still unidentifiedbut ""the book remains and is none the less delightful for the mystery which attaches to it and in the history of English literature it stands as the first or almost the first attempt to bring secular subjects within the domain of English prose and that is enough to make it mark an epoch"" Pollard Travels ""Bibliographical Note"". The text was originally known via French and Latin manuscripts and first appeared in print in Dutch circa 1470; the present edition marks the first printed appearance of this English translation ""publish'd entire from an Original MS. in the Cotton Library"" which established itself as the most authoritative version. With tipped-in title page printed in red and black. ESTC notes that the work was ""printed by William Bowyer; his records show 350 copies printed."" ESTC T100822. Howgego I M39. Catalogue of the Interesting Contents of Walton Hall Property of the Late Edward Hailstone 1294. Elaborate black and gilt leather armorial bookplate of Edward Hailstone 1818-1890.Minor foxing; slight wear to original leather. A handsome copy. hardcover
1984Q-0140444351Penguin Classics 1984-02-07. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Penguin Classics paperback
1915BOOKS23670New York NY: MacMillan Company. Very good condition/No Dustjacket. 1915. 3rd. Printing. 8vo. 390 pp. . MacMillan Company unknown
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1995x-0893916323Praeger Pub Text 1995. Hardcover. New. 122 pages. 9.50x6.25x0.50 inches. Praeger Pub Text hardcover
