NARRATIVES OF VOYAGES TOWARDS THE NORTH-WEST, in Search of a Passage to Cathay and India. 1496 to 1631. With Selections from the Early Records of the Honourable The East India Tea Company and from Manuscripts in the British Museum.
London: Hakluyt Society, 1849. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo (8vo). vi, xx, 260 pages of text. Original blue stamped hardcover binding with gilt spine lettering and front cover gilt stamp of the ship "Victoria." Moderate shelfwear and sunning to spine, with chips to spine extremities; protected in custom stiff archival mylar..... More