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Morison

THE EUROPEAN DISCOVERY OF AMERICA. The Northern Voyages A.D 500-1600

Oxford University Press, 1971

36,00 €

Buddenbrooks Inc.

(Newburyport, Stati Uniti d'America)

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Anno di pubblicazione
1971
Luogo di stampa
New York
Autore
Morison
Editori
Oxford University Press
Edizione
First Edition, book club issue. Profusely illustrated in black
Lingue
Inglese
Prima edizione

Descrizione

First Edition, book club issue. Profusely illustrated in black and white throughout with one colour frontispiece painting. 8vo, publisher's original navy blue cloth over mustard boards. Gilt lettered and decorated on the spine, in the original pictorial dustjacket. xviii, 712 pp. A fine copy, the dust jacket very good with minor rubbing.

Edizione: a handsome and pleasing copy. "a great historian and a superb prose stylist presents in these pages a comprehensive and brilliantly readable account of all known voyages across the north atlantic to the new world prior to 1600, and of the intrepid mariners, and the adventurers who sent them forth. the roll call includes all the great explorers: leif ericsson, john cabot, verrazzano, gomez, jacques cartier, martin frobisher, john davis, sir walter raleigh and his kinsmen greenville and gilbert, and a full gathering of their competitors."<br>
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