Bernard J Shapero : Rare Books

Travel

HUES, Robert

Tractatus de globis et eorum usu. A treatise descriptive of the globes constructed by Emery Molyneaux, and published in 1592. Sailing directions for the circumnavigation of England, and for a voyage to the Straits of Gibraltar (from a 15th century ms.)


Hakluyt Society, London 1889. 8vo., lvi, 229, [iv], 37pp., frontispiece, folding coloured map, original blue cloth gilt, spine darkened, bookplate, blindstamp, and spine label of Royal United Service Institution, a very good copy.

Hakluyt Society, First Series, 79a.

Price: £ 130
US Dollar Price: $ 260
Stock Number: 67028