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Atlante di Geografia-Storica Universale. Raccolta di Tavole Cronologiche, Geografiche, Etnografiche, Monumentali Appositamente Disegnate e Colorite per Servire alla Piu Facile e Completa Intelligenza del Crso di Geografia-Storica.

By: Marmocchi, F. C.

Price: $1,200.00

Publisher: Firenze: Vincenzo Batelli e Compagni, 1845.:

Seller ID: els2596

Folio, full vellum, gilt-decorated spine, calf labels, 65 pp., [iii] pp., 29 leaves of chronology, [iv], [34], [4] pp. 1 folding map, 6 double-page maps, and 45 maps and plans on 47 leaves, all handcolored. 30 ethnographic plates in full color; and 30 ethnographic plates uncolored. Damp-staining along bottom third of the whole.
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A Bordo de la Santa Maria: Hombres y Naves del Descubrimiento.

By: Martinez-Hidalgo, Jose Maria.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Diputacion Provincial de Barcelona: Publicacion del Museo Maritimo de las Reales Atarazanas, n.d.:

Seller ID: qms1324

Royal octavo, paperbound (stiff, full-color photo. illus. wrappers), 66 pp p+ 2 large fold-out charts. Near-Fine, with very slight rubbing along edges. Illustrated.
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Claudel Studies, Volume XV, Number 2 (1988). Columbus Quincentennial.

By: Nagy, Moses M.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: The Editorial Board, Claudel Studies, 1988.:

Seller ID: qms1317

Octavo, paperbound (stiff, light blue wrappers), 100 pp. Very Good+, with light sunning to spine. Articles: Moses M. Nagy: Christopher Columbus in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century French Drama; The Birth of a Biography: The Life and Voyages of Christopher Colubus by Washington Irving; The Concept of History in The Book of Christopher Columbus by Paul Claudel; Jacques Houriez: Inscription scripturaire et ecriture dramatique dans Le Livre de Christophe Colomb; Antonio Linage: Christopher Columbus in Le Soulier de Satin; Theodore J. Catchey, Jr.: The Earliest Literary Response ...
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Edge of the World, Ross Island, Antarctica: A Personal and Historical Narrative. Illustrated with Maps, Black-and-White Photographs, and with Thirty-three Color Photographs by the Author.

By: Neider, Charles.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1974. First Edition.:

Seller ID: es4142

Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), map illus. endpapers, uncut, xvi + 461 pp. Near-Fine, with slight rubbing along edges; in a Good+ dust jacket with edgewear that includes light chipping. From dust jacket: Of all the truly wild places left on the face of the earth, the continent of Antarctica remains the most awesome, the most hostile, the most persistently challenging. Over the years, it has been the setting of unparalleled stories of heroic exploration and discovery...This unique book is a rich and varied portrait of Antarctica in all its complexities -- the only work of its kind ever to be ...
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The Creature in the Map: A Journey to El Dorado.

By: Nicholl, Charles.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York: William Morrow, (1995). First American Edition.:

Seller ID: 3361gls

Octavo, green boards (hardcover), xii, 398 pp. Map, illus. Walter Raleigh quest for gold in the Orinoco Delta in Venezuela. Fine in dust jacket with mylar protector.
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With the Italia to the North Pole. English Translation by Frank Fleetwood.

By: Nobile, Umberto.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London: George Allen & Unwin, (1930). First Edition in English.:

Seller ID: 51173fd

Octavo, cream cloth (hardcover), 347 pp. Fold-out maps, photographs. Good+; bookplate, lacks ffep., otherwise clean and tight.
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The Columbus Papers: The Barcelona Letters of 1493, the Landfall Controversy, and the Indian Guides. A Facsimile Edition of the Unique Copy in the New York Public Library, with a New English Translation by Lucia Graves.

By: Obregon, Mauricio, ed. [Columbus].

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York: Macmillan, (1991).:

Seller ID: 3369gls

Square quarto, quarter leatherette & cloth (hardcover), 85 pp. Facs., illus. Fine in Fine slip case.
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Cristoforo Colombo: God's Navigator.

By: Peck, Douglas T.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Columbus, Wisc.: Columbian Publishers, [1993].:

Seller ID: m2450

1st edition. Octavo, softbound, xiv, 132 pp. Illus. Fine.
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Reconstruction and Analysis of the 1492 Columbus Log from a Sailer-Navigator Viewpoint.

By: Peck, Douglas T.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Douglas T. Peck, Second Revised Edition, November 2, 1988.:

Seller ID: qms1012

ALS, in Author's Hand, Laid-In. Large octavo, paperbound (stapled gold covers, type written pages, 31 pp + 5 pp Appendices. Includes maps, bibliography. Author's letters, notes tucked in. From upper cover: This paper presents a new research approach and a new theory identifying the landfall of Columbus in the New World. Original presentation to: The Society for the History of Discoveries, Annual Meeting, University of Minnesota, October 13, 1988.
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Christoforo Colombo, God's Navigator.

By: Peck, Douglas T.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Columbus, WI: Columbian Publishers, 1993. Review Copy.:

Seller ID: qms178

Quarto, spiral bound (stiff yellow covers, blue spiral, ix, 77pp + 25 plates. Fine (As New). Numerous illustrations. A Review Copy, with following info. to upper cover: Abbreviated, unedited, working draft of the manuscript compiled for limited distribution only. The Foreword, Epilogue and Index are not included...
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Columbus; Or A Hero of the New World, An Historical Play.

By: Preston, D. S.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1887.:

Seller ID: m2098

1st edition. Octavo, blue cloth, top edge gilt, uncut, viii, 103 pp. Very Good; bit of cover soiling, otherwise very clean and tight.
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Columbus: Dream and Act, A Tragic Suite.

By: Provost, Foster.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Providence, Rhode Island: The John Carter Brown Library, (1986).:

Seller ID: qms1673

Signed & Inscribed by the Author. Octavo, blue textured boards (textured to resemble leather), gilt letters & decoration to upper cover. Near-Fine, with lightly rubbed edges. From Preface: Columbus: Dream and Act consists of thirteen lyric sections from my quincentennial poem about the strange and gifted man who opened up the Western Hemisphere to European culture. I am issuing this short book at this time as an invitation to musical composers and visual artists to participate in the forthcoming half-millenial celebration of the 1492 landfall by composing a musical suite or by preparing ...
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Columbus: Dream and Act, A Tragic Suite.

By: Provost, Foster.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Providence, Rhode Island: The John Carter Brown Library, (1986).:

Seller ID: qms668

Octavo, blue textured boards (hardcover), gilt letters & illustration to upper cover, xi + 58 pp. Fine (As New).
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Opere Colombiane della Biblioteca Universitaria di Genova.

By: Salone, Anna Maria.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Genova: A Compagna, MCMLXXXVII.:

Seller ID: qms700

Royal octavo, paperbound (stiff white wrappers), 186 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket.
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The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation. With a Foreword by Alexander O. Vietor.

By: Skelton, R. A.; Marston, Thomas E. and George D. Painter.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966. Fourth Printing.:

Seller ID: 005429scs

Folio, red boards (hardcover), gilt letters, xii, 291 pp. Bookplate; otherwise, Fine in a Fine dust jacket. Published for the first time are two documents copied about 1440 from much earlier originals, now lost. The first is an account of Friar John of Plano Carpini's mission to the Mongols in 1245-47. The second is a world map, including the western ocean, with delineations of Iceland, Greenland, and a land mass named Vinland which represents the North American mainland as known to the medieval Norsemen. This map is the earliest known and indisputable cartographic representation of any p...
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Ultima Thule: Further Mysteries of the Arctic. Illustrated by Alexander Popini.

By: Stefansson, Vilhjalmur.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York: The Macmillan Company, 1943. Second Printing.:

Seller ID: ess4348

Octavo, navy blue cloth (hardcover), silver letters, illustrated endpapers, 383 pp. Near-Fine, with sunned spine. Maps & illustrations throughout. From Introduction: Pytheas, around whom centers the question of Thule, was considered for two thousand years the champion liar of antiquity. After perhaps the most overdue of rehabilitations, he is now in our books and belief an outstanding leader in Greek science and a foremost explorer -- the earliest of the known great explorers. If he appears to us less than Columbus in some ways he appears greater in others, particularly as a scientist. H...
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Names on the Globe.

By: Stewart, George R.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York: Oxford University Press, 1975. First Edition.:

Seller ID: 4087bd

Signed by the author. Octavo, navy blue cloth (hardcover), ix, 411 pp. Near-Fine in dust jacket with mylar protector.
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Before the Mayflower.

By: Yardley, John; Captain.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1931. First American Edition.:

Seller ID: 4249gls

Octavo, burgundy cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, vii + 408 pp. Near-Fine; in a Good, mylar protected dust jacket with edgewear that includes light chipping. From dust jacket: The courage, the determination and the luck of a handful of men; upon these slender threads did the fate of the beginnings of North American colonization depend. Captain Yardley has written the record of the various efforts made to establish an English colony in Virginia before the sailing of the Mayflower. It is a story of adventure and hardship bravely met. The dangers of the Atlantic crossing, the riggors of the...
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