A Catalogue of Geography Voyages: Travels AmericanaB. Quaritch, 1895 - 200 pages |
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... binding ( repaired ) , calf , stamped with bold gilt ornaments on the sides and back , gilt edges Paris , Galliot du pre , 1514 420 0 0 A lovely book , worthy of a king's library . Its raison d'étre in this catalogue is the fact that it ...
... binding ( repaired ) , calf , stamped with bold gilt ornaments on the sides and back , gilt edges Paris , Galliot du pre , 1514 420 0 0 A lovely book , worthy of a king's library . Its raison d'étre in this catalogue is the fact that it ...
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... binding ( slightly repaired ) Paris , chez Guillaume Cauellat , 1553 2 16 0 BENZONI . Novae Novi Orbis Historiæ .. libri tres Vrbani Calvetonis opera . ex Italicis Hierony- · • mi Benzonis .. Latine facti . . adiuncta . . de Gallorum in ...
... binding ( slightly repaired ) Paris , chez Guillaume Cauellat , 1553 2 16 0 BENZONI . Novae Novi Orbis Historiæ .. libri tres Vrbani Calvetonis opera . ex Italicis Hierony- · • mi Benzonis .. Latine facti . . adiuncta . . de Gallorum in ...
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... binding , with red edges £ s . d . Cambridge [ Massachusetts ] , 1663-61 450 0 0 EXTREMELY RARE and valuable when in fine and perfect condition as this is ; but particularly interesting and precious as one of the twenty copies which ...
... binding , with red edges £ s . d . Cambridge [ Massachusetts ] , 1663-61 450 0 0 EXTREMELY RARE and valuable when in fine and perfect condition as this is ; but particularly interesting and precious as one of the twenty copies which ...
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... binding of the first copy is a pretty example of the work of the man who used to bind for Marguerite de Valois about 1600 - probably one of the Eves . 66 On the title there is some writing , including the inscription Ce present liure ma ...
... binding of the first copy is a pretty example of the work of the man who used to bind for Marguerite de Valois about 1600 - probably one of the Eves . 66 On the title there is some writing , including the inscription Ce present liure ma ...
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... ( binding mended ) William Crooke , 1684 ( -85 ) 12 ... ... The first three parts were written in Dutch by the Buccaneer who is styled on the title of the original text ( 1678 ) A. O. Exquemelin ; on the title of the French translation ...
... ( binding mended ) William Crooke , 1684 ( -85 ) 12 ... ... The first three parts were written in Dutch by the Buccaneer who is styled on the title of the original text ( 1678 ) A. O. Exquemelin ; on the title of the French translation ...
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