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London : Hollis & Carter, (1956). First edition. Professor Taylor demonstrating in this sweeping tour-de-force just why she became the first woman to hold an academic chair in geography – navigation by sun, sea, tide, current and stars – navigation without compass or chart – navigation with compass and chart – navigation with quadrant, octant and chronometer. Phoenicians and Greeks; Irish and Norsemen; the Mediterranean; the eastern and western oceans; the Portuguese; the English awakening; Edward Wright and the true chart; the longitude solved. “A perfect title for a book that is not only deeply learned, but proves the point that detachment from, and deep absorption in the subject is the ideal condition of writing. The whole mystery, and wonder, and achievement of man’s ventures through the oceans ... has in a sense been lifted into a level of poetry” (James Hanley in Truth, 11th January 1957).
Demy 8vo (209 x 132mm). xii,(296)pp. Plates. Maps. Diagrams. Illustrations. Bound in a striking 1996 designer binding by Margaret Willmer – black goatskin over sculptured boards, with tan goatskin medallions, and blue, red and tan onlays; suminagashi marbled endpapers; an excellent copy, housed in a custom-made ribbon-tied cloth case – the case a little sunned, but otherwise very good.

£750

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