A Reference Guide to the Literature of Travel: Including Voygages, Geographical Descriptions, Adventures, Shipwrecks and Expeditions, Volume One: The Old World (University of Washington Publications in Language and Literature, Volume 9)
by Cox, Edward Godfrey
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Seattle, WA, U.S.A.: University of Washington Press, 1948. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. First published in 1935, this is the first of three volumes of an annotated bibliography of world travel literature published from earliest times to 1800; this volume covers Continental Europe, Near East, Central Asia, East Indies, Far East, Siberia, and Africa as well as Collections, Cirumnavigations, and General Travels and Descriptions; the titles are listed in chronological order within geographical sections (reddish brown cloth with black lettering on spine, covers slightly rubbed, pages slightly tanned; otherwise a good, clean, tight copy; second volume also available)
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- Title
- A Reference Guide to the Literature of Travel: Including Voygages, Geographical Descriptions, Adventures, Shipwrecks and Expeditions, Volume One: The Old World (University of Washington Publications in Language and Literature, Volume 9)
- Author
- Cox, Edward Godfrey
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press
- Place of Publication
- Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1948
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