Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997. Hardcover. xii, 370p., cloth-covered boards, 6.5x9.5 inches, illus., very good condition in like dj. Mackenthun "analyzes English and Spanish narratives of the 'discovery' and colonization of America, from the Caribbean and Mexico north to Virginia and New England. She shows how Europeans wrote..... More
Cat.No: 271339
Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. Paperback. [xiii], 277p., illustrated with a few line and plat maps, and period portraits, first issue of the trade paper edition in 9x6 inch pictorial wraps. A very clean, sound, unmarked copy. More
Cat.No: 264168
Madrid: Ediciones Cultura Hispanica, 1950. xvi, 399p., softbound, an odd volume; rubricated title page, facsimile reproductions on inserted coated stock, texts in Spanish, paperback, 9.5x6.5 inch printed wraps. Mild edgewear with a small chip at the head, light dust-soil, front free endsheet has a trivial smudge and nick, titlepage red..... More
Cat.No: 205889
London: Hollis and Carter, 1954. xiv, 382p., illustrated with scattered b&w photos and reproductions on inserted coated stock, hardbound in green boards gilt-titled. Spine panel somewhat faded and spine-titling must be held to light to read, text edges are mildly foxed; casing has the general air of having been handled..... More
Cat.No: 227926
New York: Fordham University Press, 1968. Hardcover. xiii, 194p., cloth-covered boards, 5.75x8.5 inches, corners bumped, top edge foxed else very good condition in a price-clipped and edgeworn dj with a small section cut out of the front flap (in addition to the price-clipping). More
Cat.No: 271337
New York: New York University Press, 1988. xvii, 240p., illustrated with tables; hardcover in light grey cloth boards titled black (series design). A good reading copy that is faintly dished, spine panel and top edge slightly foxed, in all other respects quite unmarred. FYI, item wasn't issued with a dust..... More
Cat.No: 265559
San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1968. Hardcover. xiii, 186p. + 4 foldout maps and plates, very good condition in cloth-covered boards and dj. Special publication #44. More
Cat.No: 20852
London: The Trustees of the Gibb Memorial, 1999. Paperback. xxxii, 109p., supplied with a modern doublespread line map, a glossary and a biographical index. Softbound, 8.5x6 inch decorated glossy wraps, Faintest edgewear to covers, old price sticker on rear wrap, near-fine condition: totally sound, clean and unmarked. More
Cat.No: 278062
Millwood NY / London: Kraus Reprint / Reproduced by permission of the Hakluyt Society, 1967 / 1901. Hardcover. lxxxvi, 191, to 482p., illustrations and maps (many folded) as called for, hardbound in blue cloth boards gilt, the Kraus imitation of the Hakluyt formula. An as-new copy (our collector client bought..... More
Cat.No: 280710
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1891. Hardcover. xxxii, 464p., illustrated with facsimiles and folded plates (map, and the two ship depictions, are rendered exceptionally well, but several others are damaged), hardbound in red cloth boards gilt. Casing bears a half-inch gash along its upper joint with loss, leaving a hole, and..... More
Cat.No: 278112
New York: Asia Publishing House, 1963. Hardcover. xii, 155p., illustrated with a number of period images in glazed inserted stock, hardbound in 8.5x5.5 inch drab cloth boards and enclosed in the dust jacket. Book itself is sunned and foxed, with a tiny red "x" on the front pastedown; most of..... More
Cat.No: 298231
New York / Cambridge: The Architectural History Foundation / The MIT Press, 1991. Hardcover. xx, 336p., cloth-covered boards, 8x10.25 inches, profusely illus., front board lightly stained, else very good condition in like dj with an old price sticker on the front flap. More
Cat.No: 274560
London: Printed for the Camden Society by John Bowyer Nichols and Son, 1840. Hardcover. xliv, 42, 35p., this latter section strictly Camden Society minutiae. Illustrated with a fine large folded map; this map shows many place-names underlined by hand in red pencil. Hardbound in 9x7 inch dark cloth boards decorated..... More
Cat.No: 276234
London: The Folio Society, 1977. Hardcover. First Folio Society issue, hot type on laid-lined paperstock, hardbound in decorated buckram boards under a pressed-Morocco backstrip ruled and lettered in gilt. A fine treatment but spoilt by severe abrasion of the leather spine, a particularly gross scuff having wiped out the author..... More
Cat.No: 279180
Istanbul: N. Refioglu Publications, 1998. Paperback. 71p., all maps shown in color, all reproduced sensitively; softbound in 9x6.5 inch color cardstock wraps. Titlepage bears a little flaw in the paperstock, a bindery tolerance not wear, this is a very good copy: sound, clean and unmarked. More
Cat.No: 279331
San Diego: Cabrillo Historical Association, 1968. Magazine. [iv], 20p., 8.5x11 inches, illustrations, introduction, appendix, very good newsletter in stapled tan pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 127170
Jacksonville: The Florida Historical Society, 1961. Paperback. ii, 203-309p., softbound in plain printed 9x6 inch wraps. Edgeworn with irregular sun-fade, dust-soil and dots of soil, a good-only copy. The three featured articles are: W. Jennings, "Sidney J. Catts and the Democratic Primary of 1920;" Roy Stockton, "Spring Training in Florida;"..... More
Cat.No: 186138
Lisboa / Coimbra: Universidade de Coimbra, 1960. Hardcover. 119p., a doublespread map terminates the item; the text is printed in both English and Portuguese, illustrations show a number of maps and several sites/buildings (not clearly reproduced, though terminal doublespread is quite detailed). Rubricated titlepage & every dropped initial, hardbound in..... More
Cat.No: 277071
Louvain / Paris: Editions Nauwelaerts / Beatrice-Nauwelaerts, 1965. Paperback. xxxvii, 253p., illustrated with several period images and a modern line map printed in inserted coated stock, main text in French, softbound in 10x6.5 inch pale green wraps titled black and brown. Opened neatly throughout, foredge slightly toned with a couple..... More
Cat.No: 279519
London: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd., 1970. Hardcover. Reprint of the 1881 first issue in photo-facsimile. xxi, 174p., illustrated with two fold-out maps bound in at the rear (reasonably good reproductions), hardbound in 9x5.5 inch bright red cloth boards gilt with a printed black spine-label field. Enclosed in the dust..... More
Cat.No: 280050
Culver City CA: Labyrinthos, 1986. Staplebound. x, 22p., illustrated with a portion of a nineteenth-century line map (London 1854), staplebound pamphlet, 11x8.5 inches in printed grey wraps. An immaculate copy. More
Cat.No: 277760
London: Frederick Muller, 1962. Hardcover. 157p. + [8]p. of plates, cloth-covered boards, 5.5x8.75 inches, illus., top edge foxed else very good condition in a price-clipped, edgeworn and foxed dj. More
Cat.No: 274570
London: Frederick Muller, 1963. Hardcover. 275p. + [12]p. of plates, cloth-covered boards, 5.5x8.75 inches, illus., title page and edges foxed else good condition. No dj. More
Cat.No: 274566
Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1994. Hardcover. x, 198p., illustrated with many vignette-size reproductions and a couple of fullpage diagrammatic "reconstructions", hardbound in 9x6 inch white boards lettered black and enclosed in the glossy colorful dust jacket. An immaculate copy: entirely sound, clean and unmarked. Laid in, find the paperwork occasioned by..... More
Cat.No: 280165
Pittsburgh: University Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh, 1977. Hardcover. xxxii, 180p., hardbound in 10x7 inch blue cloth boards and enclosed in the dust jacket. Book itself has a few traces of foxing to top edge, the dj a little rubbed, a sound copy clean and unmarked. UCIS series..... More
Cat.No: 272653
