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Father Kino: Priest to the Pimas
Clark, Ann Nolan
NY: Vision/Farrar, Straus & Co., (1963).
Price: $125.00
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Griffin: On the Route of an Indiaman
Goddio, Franck, and Evelyne Jay Guyot de Saint Michel
London: Periplus, 1999.
Price: $150.00
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Pyramidographia: Or, a Description of the Pyramids in Egypt
Graves, John
London: Henry Lintot & John Osborn, 1746.
Price: $500.00
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 Small 4to. xxix,244pp. Original bucktam, gilt. 16 illustrations. One of 500 numbered copies. The diary of Dawtrey Cooper, 1628, kept during the expedition to relieve La Rochelle; the journals of Jeremy Roch, 1666, describing voyages and adventures at sea under Charles II, James II and William III; and the diary of Francis Rogers, kept on his voyages to the West Indies, the East Indies and elsewhere in 1703 & 1704. Transcribed from the original manuscripts by Bruce S. Ingram. Cloth faded, and worn on the surface; else a very good copy. With a neat inscription on the front free endpaper: 'Michael Higgins presents this long-valued book with his respects to the Hon. Roark Bradford, N(ew) O(rleans) La. 1942.' The actor Michael Higgins later starred in a Hallmark production based on Bradford's 'All God's Chillun'.
Three Sea Journals of Stuart Times: Dawtrey Cooper; Jeremy Roch; and Francis Rogers
Ingram, Bruce S., ed.
London: Constable & Co, 1936.
Price: $150.00
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 12mo. (vii),8-28,(viii)pp. Original publisher's quarter leather; spine in 5 compartments, gilt. Textured cloth boards. Marbled endpapers. Finely printed in two colors. Frontispiece portrait of Cortes. Folding facsimile of the 1769 map of the expedition. One of 225 numbered copies for private distribution. This copy has an inscription from the printer: Para mis buenos y estimados amigos los Hermanos Sanchez....Jose Porrua. 4pp. publisher catalogue follows the limitation. There are seminary library markings on the second title page: a neat acquisition number, a penned shelf number and a small stamp. The stamp is repeated on the rear pastedown. Aside from the title page stamps there are a couple of small scuff marks to the leather else this is a fine copy.
Viage de Hernan Cortes a la Peninsula de Californias
Lorenzana, Don Francisco Antonio
Madrid: Jose Porrua Turanzas, 1958.
Price: $250.00
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Rare Books, etc. relating to America
Stevens, Henry
London: Henry Stevens, Son & Stiles, 1927.
Price: $100.00
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 First edition. 8vo. (xxiv),319pp. Original printed cream colored cloth. Illustrations from early printed works on the Americas in the sixteenth century. Index, notes, bibliography. Consists of 12 individual essays by expert scholars. A fine, as new copy. Dustwrapper is similarly fine and unclipped.
Early Images of the Americas
Williams, Jerry M., and Robert E. Lewis, eds.
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1993.
Price: $100.00
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