Further Selections from The Tragic History of the Sea - 1559-1565. Narratives of the shipwrecks of the Portuguese East Indiamen Aguia and Garca (1559) Sao Paulo (1561) and the misadventures of the Brazil-ship Santo Antonio (1565) - Translated and edited from the Original Portuguese by C.R. Boxer
by Boxer, C.R., editor
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Cambridge: Published by the Hakluyt Society at the CUP, 1968. Hardcover. x, 170p., illustrations and plentiful maps, hardbound in Hakluyt's signature blue cloth boards gilt & blind and enclosed in the dust jacket. A handsome book in perfectly sound, clean and unmarked condition. The dust jacket has a mildly toned spine panel and a touch of top edge wear: very good copy. Laid in is a Society pamphlet with 1) text of talk by Boxer on this selection, and 2) annual report and accounts for 1978 [sic, not '68]. Second series no. CXXXII.
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- Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (US)
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- Title
- Further Selections from The Tragic History of the Sea - 1559-1565. Narratives of the shipwrecks of the Portuguese East Indiamen Aguia and Garca (1559) Sao Paulo (1561) and the misadventures of the Brazil-ship Santo Antonio (1565) - Translated and edited from the Original Portuguese by C.R. Boxer
- Author
- Boxer, C.R., editor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Published by the Hakluyt Society at the CUP
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- 1968
- Bookseller catalogs
- Maritime trades; Portugal; Shipbuilding; Death, dying, mortality, morte;
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Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
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San Francisco, California
About Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
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