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The Voyage of Sir Francis Drake Mapped In Silver and Gold
Wallis, Helen Berkeley CA: Friends of the Bancroft Library. Very Good with no dust jacket; All edges slightly bumped, tail edges more so. 1979. First Edition. Softcover. A brief, scholarly history of Drake's major voyage with reproductions of the maps that he used. Quite detailed for such a brief book. Author was Keeper of Maps at The British Library. Issued as a keepsake book for Friends of the Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley. Designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy, one of the fine printers of San Francisco. End notes. Frontis of Drake and maps, all in black and white. In textured, blue-grey, stiff wraps, uncut on the fore edge. Textured blue pastedowns and endpapers. Clean covers, bright pages, and nicer than VG implies. ; Trade PB; B&W Illustrations; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 29 pages .
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The Men Who Found America
Hutchinson, Frederick Winthrop New York: Barse & Hopkins. #3409 fair/--. 1909. ND hb. no dj. 158p front cover & spine separated & torn, few pages loose, light soiling, fair reading copy. Owner's name, stamp.
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The Sea Dogs: Privateers, Plunder and Piracy in the Elizabethan Age
Williams, Neville New York: Macmillan. #64700 NF/VG+. 1975. 1st Am.. NJ hb. w/dj. 278p very light rubbing, dj. stretched, clean & tight.
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The Voyage of the Challenger
Linklater, Eric Garden City: Doubleday. #40622 NF/G. 1972. UK hb. dj/pc. 288p shelf wear, several tears taped, chips, flaps creased, book is clean & tight.
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Voyages of Discovery: Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific
Withey, Lynne New York: William Morrow. #56893 VG/VG. 1987. 1st. MZ hb. w/dj. 512p ex-library, clean & firm. ISBN 0-688-05115-4 .
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The Adventures of Marco Polo: As Dictated in Prison to a Scribe in the Year 1298, etc
Walsh, Richard J. (editor) New York: John Day. #65092 VG+/--. 1948. special. NV hb. no dj. 208p spine sunned, shelf wear, owner's name, o/w clean & tight. Beautiful colour plates.
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The Life & Times of Columbus
Giardini, Cesare Philadelphia: Curtis Publ.. #11907 VG+/--. c1967. NP hb. issued w/o dj.. 76p light shelf wear & soiling to cover, clean & firm inside.
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Admiral of the Ocean Sea
Morison, Samuel Eliot Boston: Little, Brown. #18655 VG/G. 1942. NP hb. w/dj. 680p dj. chipped & torn, large portion st top of spine loose, owner's name, light soiling on edges, clean & firm inside.
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The Golden Hind
Roche, T.W.E London: Arthur Barker. #39718 NF/NF. 1973. NP hb. dj/pc. 200p very light shelf wear, bookplate, clean & tight copy. ISBN 0-213-16438-8 .
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Christopher Columbus: Master of the Atlantic
Thomas, David A London: Andre Deutsch. #25069 NF/--. 1991. 1st. NP softcover. 212p very light shelf wear o/w fine, clean & tight. ISBN 0-233-98724-X .
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Ten Who Dared
Wilcox, Desmond Boston: Little, Brown. #33649 NF/VG. 1977. NP hb. w/dj. 336p shelf wear & chipping, closed tears, clean & tight inside Travels of: Roald Amundsen, Charles M.Doughty, H.M.Stanley, Burke & Willis, Mary Kingsley, Jedediah Smith, Baron von Humboldt, James Cook. ISBN 0-913948-09-8 .
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Trelawny: A Man's Life
Armstrong, Margaret New York: Macmillan. #38022 VG/G. 1940. NP hb. w/dj. 379p shelf wear & chipping, bits missing, clean & firm inside owner's insc.
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John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography
Morison, Samuel Eliot New York: Time Inc.. #22906 VG/--. 1964. reprint. NP trade paper. 456p copver partly detached, o/w a fine copy, clean & tight.
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British Polar Explorers
Evans, Edward London: Collins, 1946. VG/VG. 2nd impression 48 p., 8 color plates, 14 b/w illus, 8vo;
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Shadow of a Continent: the Prize That Lay to the West
Meyer, Larry L Palo Alto: American West Publishing Co, 1975. VG/Good, 1/2" tears to dj, price clipped dj, large chip to rear of dj. 1st printing 384 p., illus., maps, biblio, index, large 8vo;
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