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Livres anciens et modernes

Lefroy, General Sir J. Henry

The Historye of the Bermudaes or Summer Islands

1882

329,00 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canada)

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Détails

Année
1882
Lieu d'édition
London. The Hakluyt Society
Auteur
Lefroy, General Sir J. Henry
Edition
First edition.
Thème
Travel - Central America & West Indies Hakluyt Society Bermuda
Langues
Anglais
Premiére Edition
Oui

Description

8vo [23 x 15 cm]; [viii], xii, 327, 16 [Hakluyt Society report for 1882 including list of members, publications], 4 plates including a map of Bermuda, 1623 and portraits of John Smith, George Sommers, index. original blind-stamped cloth, gilt cover vignette, spine title lettering, spine faded & end frayed, endpaper bookplate removed, small light blind-stamp on title, plate lightly foxed, overall very good condition, interiors clean, unmarked & near fine. A pi Based on a manuscript in the Sloane Collection of the British Museum, Lefroy, formerly Governor of the Bermudas, provides a detailed introduction. Lefroy believed the manuscript, which date ended at 1622, was by Captain John Smith, who was also a historian of Virginia, (although some attribute it to Nathaniel Butler). Cox i, 232. Published in the first series of the Hakluyt Society, the first series always scarce, this copy partly unopened and unread. The map has Bermuda in the center and surrounded by illustrations of various buildlings and fortifications.