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First edition, the deluxe signed extra-illustrated issue, of Wagner's important reference work on Sir Francis Drake's Voyage Around the World.
First edition, the deluxe signed extra-illustrated issue, of Wagner's important reference work on Sir Francis Drake's Voyage Around the World.
First edition, the deluxe signed extra-illustrated issue, of Wagner's important reference work on Sir Francis Drake's Voyage Around the World.
First edition, the deluxe signed extra-illustrated issue, of Wagner's important reference work on Sir Francis Drake's Voyage Around the World.
First edition, the deluxe signed extra-illustrated issue, of Wagner's important reference work on Sir Francis Drake's Voyage Around the World.
First edition, the deluxe signed extra-illustrated issue, of Wagner's important reference work on Sir Francis Drake's Voyage Around the World.

signed deluxe extra-illustrated issue


WAGNER, Henry R.

Sir Francis Drake's Voyage Around the World. Its aims and achievements.

San Francisco, John Howell, 1926.

$891.00
$891.00

Sir Francis Drake's Voyage Around the World.

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Wagner makes use of all available material to reconstruct Drake's voyage and "restore the enterprise to its true status as the first expedition sent out by English adventurers for the discovery of new trades to reach the fabled Spice Islands of the East".

First edition, no. 85 of 100 extra-illustrated and specially bound examples, signed by the author; 4to (28.5 x 22 cm); 12 plates and 62 in-text illustrations, extra illustrated with 21 additional plates and maps, signed by author to limitation page; contemporary full green morocco by Whitman Bennett, gilt ruled boards with gilt rolled turn-ins, spine lettered in gilt in six compartments, top edge gilt, a little wear to extremities, lower hinge starting to split but solid, a very good copy; x, [2], 543 pp.

Howes W9.

Stock code 122087

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First edition, the deluxe signed extra-illustrated issue, of Wagner's important reference work on Sir Francis Drake's Voyage Around the World.

Sir Francis Drake's Voyage Around the World.

$891.00
$891.00

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