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Author's revised edition. ***Illustrated with numerous black and white steel-engraved plates including portrait frontispiece of Christopher Columbus and vignette engraving showing the fleet of Christopher Columbus to title-page, and very attractive double-page engraving showing a panorama of the port of 'Genoa' on page 10-11, with another attractive double-page engraving showing 'Cape Haytien at the present time,' between pages 156-7, and another beautifully depicted double-page engraving showing 'forest scene in the province of Xaragua' between pages 406-7. ***Very good in dark burgundy bevelled cloth-covered boards, with gilt titles and gilt decoration to spine and front board and blind decoration to rear board. Black front and rear endpapers and pastedowns. Contemporaneous gift inscription: 'J. W. Dougstaff from Hank Bramley March 18th 1898' in black fountain pen ink and also a small modern owner's address label to second free endpaper. Edges of boards rubbed. Head and tail of spine rubbed and slightly bumped. Spine tight. 664 pages. 208 x 154 mm. ***'The description given of the Atlantic by Xerif al Edrisi, surnamed the Nubian, an eminent Arabian writer, whose countrymen were the boldest navigators of the middle ages, and possessed all that was then known of geography.' --- "The ocean," he observes, "encircles the ultimate bounds of the inhabited earth, and all beyond it is unknown. No one has been able to verify anything concerning it, on account of its difficult and perilous navigation, its great obscurity, its profound depth, and frequent tempests, through fear of its mighty fishes and its haughty winds; yet there are many islands in it, some peopled, others uninhabited. There is no mariner who dares to enter into its deep waters; of if they have done so, they have merely kept along its coasts, fearful of departing from them. The waves of this ocean, although they roll as high as mountains, yet maintain themselves without breaking; for if they broke, it would be impossible for ships to plough them.' (Description of Spain, by Xerif al Edrisi: Conde's Spanish translation, Madrid, 1790). ***It is the object of the following work to relate the deeds and fortunes of the mariner who first had the judgement to divine, and the intrepidity to brave, the mysteries of this perilous deep; and who, by his hardy genius, his inflexible constancy, and his heroic courage, brought the ends of the earth into communication with each other. The narrative of his troubled life is the link which connects the history of the Old World with that of the New.' [Quote taken from the introduction by the author] ***Nicely illustrated and detailed Victorian edition of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus by Washington Irving. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 2796
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Bibliografische Details
Titel: THE LIFE AND VOYAGES OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
Verlag: T. Nelson & Sons, London
Erscheinungsdatum: 1894
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Very Good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket, as Issued
Auflage: Author's Revised Edition
