Five Hakluyt Society Titles. All books published in London by the Hakluyt Society, all are octavo volumes in publisher's blu... (Total: 9 Items)

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The Hakluyt Society

Five Hakluyt Society Titles. All books published in London by the Hakluyt Society, all are octavo volumes in publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles, including: [Robert Brown, editor]. The History and Description of Africa of Leo Africanus. 1896. Three volumes. cxi, 224; 225-698; 799-1119 pages. Some sunning to the spines. Tears to the spine of Volume III. [and:] [Charles R. Beazley and Edgar Prestage, translators]. The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea. Written by Gomes Eannes de Azurara. 1896. Two volumes. lxvii, 127; cl, 128-362 pages. Folding maps. Some sunning to the spines. Armorial bookplates of Lord Belhaven & Stenton. [and:] [George H. T. Kimble, translator and editor]. Esmeraldo de Situ Orbis, by Duarte Pacheco Pereira. 1937. xxxv, 193. Maps. [and:] [G. R. Crone, translator and editor]. The Voyages of Cadamosto and Other Documents on Western Africa in the Second Half of the Fifteenth Century. 1937. xiv, 154 pages. Maps. Index. [and:] [John William Blake, translator and editor]. Europeans in West Africa, 1450-1560. 1942. Two volumes. xxxvi, 248; xi, 249-461 pages. Maps. Index. Some chipping and sunning to the dust jackets. All volumes with bookplates of previous owner. All in very good condition. From the Professor John Ralph Willis Collection of Rare Africana.