Toscanelli and Columbus: The Letter and Chart of Toscanelli on the Route to the Indies by Way of the West, Sent in 1474 to the Portuguese Fernam Martins, and Later on to Christopher Columbus [signed]
by Henry Vignaud
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- Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Newmarket, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
London, England: Sands & Co.; London, 1902. Limited edition. Hardcover. Good. Number 5 of a limited edition of 200 copies, and signed by Vignaud. Small quarto, xix + 365 pages, half vellum & green cloth, top edge gilt. Contains 4 fold-out appendices & fold-out map. A good copy overall of this limited first edition; internal condition very good with binding solid, paper clean, cream white, with endpapers lightly soiled and fore-edges lightly foxed. Exterior is fair as backstrip has begun to separate from the front cover at the hinges with original vellum split 4" from top and bottom edges, but holding mid-section. Vellum is heavily foxed and green cloth is stained and rubbed especially at rear panel. A copy worthy of restoration. ".....a critical study on the authenticity and value of these documents and the source of the cosmological ideas.......
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- Bookseller
- Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6965
- Title
- Toscanelli and Columbus: The Letter and Chart of Toscanelli on the Route to the Indies by Way of the West, Sent in 1474 to the Portuguese Fernam Martins, and Later on to Christopher Columbus [signed]
- Author
- Henry Vignaud
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited edition
- Publisher
- Sands & Co.; London
- Place of Publication
- London, England
- Date Published
- 1902
- Keywords
- Signed by author; Fifteenth Century; World History; Maritime; Exploration; Cartography
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Avenue Victor Hugo Books specialize in first editions of the best in fiction, history, biography, poetry, drama, and essay. Our catalogue features careful, considered assessments of all of our stock. We are not flippers selling books by the pound. Instead, we try to limit our stock to books in a condition we'd be proud to place on our personal bookshelves.
For nearly 30 years, Avenue Victor Hugo Books was a fixture of Newbury Street in Boston's Back Bay, at one time holding over a quarter-million magazines and 150,000 used books. Awarded "Best Used Bookstore" multiple times by Boston Magazine, the store was a favorite of Boston-area authors and college students alike.
Since relocating to New Hampshire our shop has been featured on WBGH Boston News, WVCB's "Boston Chronicle," NHPR, and WMUR's "New Hampshire Chronicle." Avenue Victor Hugo has also recently been featured in "New Hampshire magazine," "The Boston Globe," UNH's "The New Hampshire," "The New Hampshire Union Leader," and "Foster's Daily Democrat."
Our store is open Fridays & Saturdays from 10am to 6pm in Lee, New Hampshire, less than 10 minutes from the University of New Hampshire.
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- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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