Admiral of the Ocean Sea; A Life of Christopher Columbus
by Morison, Samuel Eliot
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good in poor dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Bookplate glue toning. Slight edge wear. Top and bottom spine ends slig
- Seller
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Newport, New Hampshire, United States
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- Bookseller
- Hedgehog's Whimsey Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Alibris.C7070005019
- Title
- Admiral of the Ocean Sea; A Life of Christopher Columbus
- Author
- Morison, Samuel Eliot
- Illustrator
- Raisz, Erwin (Maps by), and Greene, Bertram (Drawings by).
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in poor dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Bookplate glue toning. Slight edge wear. Top and bottom spine ends slig
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Same date, title & copyright pgs. No additional printing not
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Date Published
- 1942
- Keywords
- Erwin Raisz, map artist; Bertram Greene, artist; 15th century explorer; New World discovery; Harvard historian-author; Biography; Sea-faring artist;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Ships & Boats; Biography; Explorers & Arctic Studies;
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