Travel and Discovery in the Renaissance 1420-1620 by Penrose, Boies

Harvard University Press, 1967. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Harvard University Press, 1967. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Holiday House, 1962. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Atheneum. Used - Good. Good condition. (geography, discovery, history) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Very good black covers with gold title on spine, spine ends rubbed, bookplate, pages yellowed, binding tight, very good in chipped, browned, edge worn and price clipped jacket, now in protective cover. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st. 1952.

Harvard University Press, 1955. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Black cloth with titles in gilt. Octavo. 377 pages, bibliography, index. Stated 5th printing. Fine copy in a very good dust jacket in a mylar protector.

Harvard University Press, 1960. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1960. Third Printing. 377 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Dust jacket over black cloth. Library copy, with expected inserts and inscriptions. Bright and clean pages with light tanning to text block edges. Binding is firm throughout with minor thumb-marking. Notable tape staining to pastedowns and endpapers. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Mild crushing to spine ends. Mild scratching and marking to boards. tape marks to boards. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Mild tanning to spine. Library number to spine.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1967. Hardcover. Octavo; Fifth printing; G+/G; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine, green and tan with tan print; DJ has edgewear with small tears to front top edge and small puncture to rear flap fold, toning to spine, price-clipped; Boards in black cloth with gold print, slight wear to spine caps, else clean and strong; Inscribed in ink by the author on the front flyleaf; xvi, 377 pages, illustrated (b&w). 1345765. FP New Rockville Stock.

(Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1955). 8vo; original black cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; no dustwrapper; pp. xvi + (ii) + 377, incl. index; illustrations and maps. Top fore-corner of upper board bumped; earlier owner's name signed on front free endpaper; a little foxing. Good to very good condition. 'The exploration and exploitation of non-European areas by Europeans during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries form one of the greatest phenomena of the Renaissance; one that had never previously been witnessed on such a scale and one that is still of prime importance in the world today. It is curious, therefore, that this highly significant phase of human endeavor should have had no concise, adequate, one-volume treatment since the publication of Sophus Ruge's Geschichte des Zeitalters der Entdeckungen in 1881. Good as Ruge's book is, its value for the average interested reader is lessened by its being in German and being out-of-print; moreover, a good deal… Read More

Harvard University Press, 1952. Hardcover. Ink signature else very good condition with text clean and binding tight in a worn brodart protected dust jacket. This is the 1952 first printing.. 369pp.