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Nendeln: Kraus, 1972. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good +. Reprint (first Kraus edition), 1972. Cloth hardcover, 221 pp., fold-out, Very Good+ copy, erasable pencil-notes to a few pages, off-setting to the endpapers, no dust jacket. Uncommon book.

Hakluyt Society 1907. FIRST EDITION, super octavo, gilt lettering to spine, gilt ship motif & blind stamp decoration to front board, deckled/rough cut page edges- some still uncut, xxvi + 221pp, folding maps, VG (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, moderate discolouration to spine, sl chafing & soiling to rear board, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps)

London: Printed For The Hakluyt Society. Very Good. 1907. Hardcover. Second Series No XXI issued for 1907, xxxvi + 221p. P, 4 illustrations, 2 colour folding maps, bibliography, index endpapers starting to brown, Bound in original blue blind and gilt stamped cloth with gilt sailing ship on covers, gilt lettering, spine browned and bumped top and base, ; Large Octavo .

London: Printed for The Hakluyt Society, 1907. First edition. Hardcover. g+ to vg. Quarto. [12], XXVI, [2], 221, [1]pp. Uncut and unopened copy! Original gilt-, and blind-stamped blue cloth, with gold lettering on spine. Tissue-guarded frontispiece. Decorative head-, tailpieces and initials. Alonso de Espinosa was a Spanish priest and historian of the sixteenth century, and also the first official historian of the island of Tenerife. Little is known of his early life. He is first heard of towards the end of the 16th century in Guatemala where he had become a Dominican. It was while he was in Central America that he first heard of the reported miracles of Our Lady of Candelaria, an image of the Virgin and Child that had been among the Guanches of Tenerife since long before their conversion to Christianity, and had been venerated not only by the Guanches, but later by their conquerors, the Spanish. Inspired by the fame of this image, Espinosa resolved to research and write a history of the image and… Read More

London: Printed For The Hakluyt Society [Second Series: No. 21], 1907., 1907. 8vo. pp. 5 p.l., xxvi, 221. with half-title. 4 plates (incl. frontis.). & 2 folding colour maps. largely unopened in original blind & gilt-stamped cloth. Cox I 400.. Hardcover.