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Admiral of the ocean sea, a life of Christopher Columbus / by Samuel Eliot Morison. Maps by Erwin Raisz. Drawings by Bertram Greene ...

Van Pelt Library E111 .M86 1942a copy 2
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LIBRA - Special E111 .M86 1942a
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Morison, Samuel Eliot, 1887-1976.
Contributor:
Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Columbus, Christopher.
Penn Provenance:
Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
Macioce, Thomas M. (bookplate) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
Physical Description:
xx, 680 pages : frontispiece (portrait) illustrations, plates, folded maps, diagrams ; 25 cm
Place of Publication:
Boston : Little, Brown and company, 1942.
Notes:
"An Atlantic monthly press book."
Map on lining-papers.
"A condensation of my two-volume Admiral of the ocean sea, published at the same time. All the notes have been omitted, and a good many pages of navigational data; a chapter on ships and sailing and one on the origin of syphilis have been summarized. Otherwise the two editions are identical."--p. xx.
"Salve regina" (words and melody): p. [181]
Local Notes:
Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket (torn at spine) retained.
Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has bookplate "Ex Libris Thomas M. Macioce Wash. D. C. June 25 1943" on front pastedown.
OCLC:
419092

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