Sir Martin Frobisher

PHOTOS
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PUBLISHER
John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd, London.

BINDING
Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering, black embossed representation of The Golden Hind and wave pattern.

BOOK CONDITION
Good, a little shelf wear to edges of boards. Foxing to page edges, but printed pages and illustrations remain largely unmarked. P 49-50 has a 1cm tear and some creasing.

DUST JACKET
Intact, but tearing at either end of the spine has previously been mended with tape. General scuffing and staining.

EDITION
First edition, 1928.

DESCRIPTION
One of The Golden Hind series of biographies of explorers. Illustrated with nine images of maps and engravings, one of which folds out. Two further historical maps in endpapers. 288 pp.

SYNOPSIS
A biography of the Elizabethan seafarer and privateer, known for his three voyages of exploration to the New World in search of the North East Passage.