The European Discovery Of America by Samuel Eliot Morison - 1971 : The Northern Voyages

New York: Oxford University Press , 1971 . 1971 on title & copyright pages. . Hardcover. Ex-Library/flaps pasted down . Frontispiece : In color - Frobisher's fight with Eskimos at Frobisher Bay , by John White, July, 1577......With Preface .....Twenty selections, by a great historian and superb prose specialist of all known voyages across the Atlantic to the New World, prior to 1600, titled : The Mysterious Ocean.....St. Brendan and the Irish A.D 400 - 600......The Norseman and Vineland c. A.D. 800 - 1400......Flyaway Islands and False Voyages 1100 - 1492...English Ships and Seaman 1490 - 1600....John Cabot's Voyages 1407 -1498..... Voyages to the Labador and Newfoundland 1500 - 1536....The French Maritine Background 1453 -1590.... ...The Voyagesof Verrazzano 1524 - 1528 ....Gomez and Ayllon 1524 - 1530 ...Cartier's First Voyage 1534 ...etc....concluding with :The Second Virginia Colony 1587 - ?.....With maps, illustrated plates,f igure-drawings.,aerials, portraits , in abundance Blue lettering , peach colored covers, with blue bindinggilt lettering on the binding of cloth book ( 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 X 1/8 ) 712 pagers. Mylar coverd pictorial dust jacket with flaps pasteddown Mark on front end page. Intact former library, illustrated, Morison book, 45 years old, in good condition. Book weighs 2 3/4 pounds.

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