Maritime - Ravenstein, Ernst Georg.
£525
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography
Auction: 13 January 2016 at 11:00 GMT
Description
Martin Behaim, his life and his globe. London: George Philip & Son, 1908, number 338 of 510 copies printed, folio, plates and illustrations including 4 colour facsimile folding sheets of the globes in rear pocket, original cloth backed boards, library stamp to title-page, some offsetting, some staining to head of the sheets not affecting image, gilt library stamp to front board, spine worn, hinges split, some soiling; Gunther, Robert. The Astrolabes of the World, Oxford: 1932, 2 volumes, 4to, plates and illustrations, some folding, original cloth, gilt, library stamp to title-page, gilt library stamp to front board, some soiling; and one other of similar interest by Rupert Gould. (4)