Large Group Books on European Exploration

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Jan 13, 2020

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An auction featuring an impressive collection of books and maps, including several notable cartographic depictions of California as an island, first editions of notable books including Sir Richard Burton’s “1001 Nights,” and a page from the Nuremberg Chronicle. Revere Auctions info@revereauctions.com

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  Large group of books on early modern European exploration. Titles include "The Italians and the Creation of America," An Exhibition at the John Carter Brown Library Brown University prepared by Samuel J. Hough; John R. Hale, "Age of Exploration"; Bern Dibner, "The Victoria and the Triton"; "Webster's New Geographical Dictionary"; William A. Lessa, "Drake's Island of Thieves"; Robb Sagendorph, "America and her Almanacs"; David Divine, "The Opening of the World"; Lee, "An Additional Number of Letters from the Federal Farmer to the Republican"; Powell, "Mirrors of the New World"; "The Merchant Explorer," Univerisity of Minnesota Library, Minnesota; Lewis Gannett, "New Found World"; Derek Willson, "The World Encompassed" two copies; Philip L. Barbour, "The Three Worlds of Captain John Smith"; Franklin T. McCann, "English Discovery of America to 1585," King's Crown Press, Columbia University, New York, 1952; Franklin T. McCann, "English Discovery of America to 1585," Octagon Books, New York, 1969; L. F. Hobley, "Roy's Informative Reference Series. Early Explorers to A.D. 1500" seven copies; Michael Foss, " Undreamed Shores. England's wasted Empire in America" two copies; edited by Louis B. Write and Elaine W. Fowler, "West and by North. North America seen through the Eyes of its Seafaring Discoveries"; David B. Quinn, "North American Discovery circa 1000-1612"; Evelyn Page, "American Genesis. Pre-Colonial Writing in the North"; Bernard Bailyn, "Voyagers to the West. A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution"; Wayne Franklin, "Discoverers, Explorers, Settlers. The Diligent Writers of Early America"; Jerome Eden, "Land of MON"; J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, "Letters from an American Farmer. An 18th century Thoreau writes of the New World"; Ellen F. Rosebrock, "Farewell to Old England. New York in Revolution," South Street Seaport Museum"; "The Academy Bookman," volume 30 number 1, 1977; E. S. Dellinger, "Railroad Stories. The Silver Cross," February; Glynn Isaac and Richard E. F. Leakey, "Scientific American. Human Ancestors"; Colonel Howard G. Hill, "Riding The Limiteds' Locomotives"; "America from Amerigo Vespucci to the Louisiana Purchase"; Steven Runciman, "The First Crusade"; John Winton, "Sir Walter Raleigh"; Thomas Wright, "The Passions of the Minde in Generall"; Oren Harman, "The Price of Altruism"; Weinstein, "Ambassador from Venice," University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis; Raymond Weaver, "Journal up the Straits. October 11, 1856 - May 5, 1857"; John F. Kasson, "Civilizing the Machine. Technology and Republican Values in America, 1776-1900"; Edmund Campion, "A Historie of Ireland (1571)"; Howard Greenfeld, "The Waters of November"; Henry H. Hart, "Venetian Aventurer. The Life and Times of Marco Polo"; Neville Williams, "The Sea Dogs. Privateers, Plunder & Piracy in the Elizabethan Age"; Helen Wright and Samuel Rapport, "The Great Explorers"; edited with introduction by Manuel Komroff with illustrations by Witold Gordon, "The Travels of Marco Polo (The Venetian)"; M. B. Synge, "A Book of Discovery" two copies; David B. Quinn, "North American Discovery circa 1000-1612" two copies; I. J. Benjamin, "Three Years in America 1859-1862" Volume II; John Kenneth, "Galbraith. The Age of Uncertainty. A History of Economic Ideas and their Consequences"; Edward Gaylord Bourne, Ph.D., "Spain in America 1450-1580"; Henry Harrisse, "John Cabot. The Discoverer of North-America and Sebastian His Son. A Chapter of the Maritime History of England under the Tudors 1496-1557"; Guy Stevens Callender, "Selections from the Economic History of The United States 1765-1860"; P. E. Cleator, "Archaeology in the Making"; George William Evans, "A Geographical Historical and Topographical Description of Van Diemen's Land."

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