Discovery: The quest for the great south land de ESTENSEN, MIRIAM

Allen And Unwin. Used - Like New. 8vo.

Allen & Unwin, New South Wales, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. 400 g; X, 286pp., acknowledgements, notes, bibliography, index. Black and white frontispiece, showing title page of a 1597 atlas. Throughout the text there are 12 coloured plates, several text illustrations, maps and illustrations at the beginning of chapters. Blue boards with gilt writing on the spine. The endpapers are illustrated with maps. There is minor shelf wear evident on the bottom edge of the boards, and there's an ownership inscription at the bottom right-hand corner of the half title page. Illustrated dustwrapper, showing a map overlaid with illustrations. 600 years before the birth of Christ there was an imagined, and immense land at the bottom of the world. "At the heart of 'Discovery' is the power of a myth and the adventures and sacrifices of those who pursued it, for this is a story of how an imagined place was made real, how the speculation is of visionaries… Leer más

London: Allen & Unwin, 1998. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Size: 8" Tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: History; ISBN: 1864484977. ISBN/EAN: 9781864484977. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 15895. . 9781864484977

St Leonards, N.S.W. Allen & Unwin 1998. 1998. Hardcover. Small 8vo hardcover 286pp index. very good / very good d/w. .

St Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 1998 F/F. 8vo. original blue boards gilt in dustwrapper; pp. x, 286, with illustrations. A fine copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. F/F.

St Leonards, Allen & Unwin first edition - hard cover in dust jacket Six centuries before the birth of Christ people began to imagine an immense land at the bottom of the world, a land of marvels, of enormous wealth and mystery. This is the story of the quest, the men and their hardships to unveil the sixth continent. 197 x 137mm., pp. x, 286, b/w line drawings & twelve colour plates, notes, biblio., index. Hard cover in dust jacket. Contents, NO INSCRIPTIONS, d.j. no tears or chips. TRUE FIRST AUSTRALIAN EDITION with correct numbering (10 through to 1) FINE/NEAR FINE ISBN: 1864484977