NIMMO’S NATIONAL LIBRARY.
Just ready, in crown 8vo, with Steel Frontispiece and Vignette, handsomely bound, roxburgh style, price 5s.,
THE ENGLISH CIRCUMNAVIGATORS:
THE MOST REMARKABLE VOYAGES ROUND THE WORLD BY ENGLISH SAILORS.
(DRAKE, DAMPIER, ANSON, AND COOK’S VOYAGES.)
WITH A PRELIMINARY SKETCH OF THEIR LIVES AND DISCOVERIES.
Edited, with Notes, Maps, etc., by David Laing Purves.
‘Compared with a good deal of the literature for young folks which is poured upon the market, these narratives are as gold to worthless clay.... The book is a good book in a handsome shape.’—Scotsman.
‘We do not think a boy’s book of equal worth and equal cheapness was ever previously published.’—Ayr Observer.
To be followed by ‘The English Explorers,’ the more famous Land Travels by Sir John Mandeville, Bruce, Mungo Park, etc. etc., and other Standard Works, uniform in size and price.
This Series is also kept bound in cloth extra, full gilt side, back, and edges, price 6s. 6d. each.
SIXTH THOUSAND.
In demy 8vo, cloth elegant, richly gilt, price 7s. 6d., or in Turkey morocco antique, 21s.,