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The Roanoke Voyages 1584-1590. Volume I only. Documents to Illustrate the English Voyages to North America under the Patent Granted to Walter Raleigh in 1584
by Quinn, David Beers (Ed. )
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: The Hakluyt Society. Fair with no dust jacket. 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Large 60mm tear to cloth across head of spine. Otherwise good. ; Volume One only. xxxiv, [2], 496 pages + two folding maps. Blue cloth boards with blind-stamped gilt illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 218mm x 138mm. ; 8vo .
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- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22425
- Title
- The Roanoke Voyages 1584-1590. Volume I only. Documents to Illustrate the English Voyages to North America under the Patent Granted to Walter Raleigh in 1584
- Author
- Quinn, David Beers (Ed. )
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Hakluyt Society
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1955
- Keywords
- Roanoke Hakluyt Society North America Voyages
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About the Seller
Renaissance Books
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Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
Glossary
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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