Search Results: la austrialia del espiritu santo the by kelly celsus edited

Cambridge: Hakluyt Society, 1966. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. Second Series No. CXXVI and CXXVII; 8vos, blue cloth; vg (cocked; spine ends bumped and crimped; eps and pages toning; top corners of vI bumped and crimped; corners bumped and crimped, affects pages, with dent to top edge of rear board of vII) in good+ djs (toned; spines faded; edges bumped, worn, creased, torn and lightly chipped; soiled; black stains on front panel of vI and rear panel of vII); 446pp and 270pp.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press for the Hakluyt Society, 1966. 2 volumes, complete. Square, tight set. Sharp corners. Not a book club edition. Not price clipped (80s net). No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Illustrated with plates, maps and charts, several folding. From the Dust Jackets: "Pedro Fernandez de Quiros was a remarkable navigator and explorer. Having sailed in 1595 as chief pilot in the ill-fated Spanish expedition to the Solomon Islands, he returned to the 'Austral Lands' - the area of the New Hebrides - in 1605 with another expedition, which is the subject of this volume." The Hakluyt Society, Second Series, Nos. CXXVI and CXXVII. "With ethnological introduction, appendix, and other contributions by G. S. Parsonson." The author's 133 page introduction puts the expedition into historical context and illuminates the nature of 17th century explorations. Contains 32 documents concerning the 1605 expedition. Tables of… Read More