first edition Hardcover
1981 · London
by Halley, Edmond, diarist. Norman J. W. Thrower, editor
London: The Hakluyt Society, 1981. Hardcover. 392p., maps (folded, smallish) and illustrations as called for, with pocketed maps (all three, folded, large) in a separate binding, each casebound item Hakluyt-style: medium-blue cloth boards gilt and blind, in dust jacket. Corner-tips slightly turned, light foxing to top edge of textblock, and rolling to the slim spine of the "portfolio", these the sole and only flaws we see, pace a minute ding to the margin of one of the large charts, and mild edgewear to dust jackets. The pair, very good to near fine. Second series nos. 156, 157. FYI, "The journal of the third voyage is here published for the first time.. (truncated)