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The Discovery of Florida, being a true relation of the vicissitudes that attended the Governor Don Hernando de Soto and some nobles of Portugal in the Discovery of Florida. Translated by Buckingham Smith, with a NewIntroduction by George P. Hammond

The Discovery of Florida, being a true relation of the vicissitudes that attended the Governor Don Hernando de Soto and some nobles of Portugal in the Discovery of Florida. Translated by Buckingham Smith, with a NewIntroduction by George P. Hammond

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The Discovery of Florida, being a true relation of the vicissitudes that attended the Governor Don Hernando de Soto and some nobles of Portugal in the Discovery of Florida. Translated by Buckingham Smith, with a NewIntroduction by George P. Hammond

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[San Francisco]: Printed at the Grabhorn Press for the Book Club of Claifornia, [946]. 280 copies, signed by Ed, Mary& Robert Grabhorn. Malette Dean and Sherwood Grover. Initials and decorations designed and cut by Mallette Dean. [vii], 106, [2] pp. Printed on French handmade paper, set in Franciscan type. 1 vols. Folio. Bound in quarter white cloth and decorated orange paper boards, printed paper label on the backstrip. Fine in original salmon palin dj, chipped. 280 copies, signed by Ed, Mary& Robert Grabhorn. Malette Dean and Sherwood Grover. Initials and decorations designed and cut by Mallette Dean. [vii], 106, [2] pp. Printed on French handmade paper, set in Franciscan type. 1 vols. Folio. Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press, # 432Mill/5/2

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Title
The Discovery of Florida, being a true relation of the vicissitudes that attended the Governor Don Hernando de Soto and some nobles of Portugal in the Discovery of Florida. Translated by Buckingham Smith, with a NewIntroduction by George P. Hammond
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Fidalgo of Elvas
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Initials and decorations designed and cut by Mallette Dean. [vii], 106, [2] pp. Printed on French handmade paper, set in Francis
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Used - Bound in quarter white cloth and decorated orange paper boards, printed paper label on the backstrip. Fine in original salmon pa
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280 copies, signed by Ed, Mary& Robert Grabhorn. Malette Dean an
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Printed at the Grabhorn Press for the Book Club of Claifornia
Place of Publication
[San Francisco]
Date Published
[946]
Keywords
Private Press | Florida
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