The Conquest and Settlement of the Island of Boriquen or Puerto Rico
by OVIEDO Y VALDES, Captain Gonzalo Fernandez, translated and edited by Daymond Turner;
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Bookseller
- Horizon Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- J7717
- Title
- The Conquest and Settlement of the Island of Boriquen or Puerto Rico
- Author
- OVIEDO Y VALDES, Captain Gonzalo Fernandez, translated and edited by Daymond Turner;
- Format/Binding
- Original quarter natural vellum, gilt stamped on red cloth, spine lightly sunned, original black slipcase with gilt lettering, f
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Avon, Limited Editions Club, 1975, First edition in English, limited to 2,000 copies, this is #644, signed by both illustrators.
- Size
- small folio [31 x 19 cm]; xxxvii
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel - Central America & West Indies;
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- Vellum
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- Sunned
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- First Edition
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- Gilt
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- Folio
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- Cloth
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- Fine
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- 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....