Search Results: the conquest of new granada by freile juan rodriguez

Folio Society, 1961. Hardcover. Good. 1961. No Edition Remarks. 228 pages. No dust jacket, Folio edition with slipcase. Green cloth with decorations and slipcase. Black and white illustrations throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Slipcase has moderate edge wear with markings to panels and scuffing to edges. Tears to edges. Water staining to spine and edges.

The Folio Society, 1961. Hardcover. Good. 1961. No Edition Remarks. 228 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering. Contains black and white wood engravings by Harold Bennett. Slipcase. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Slipcase has light edge wear with minor markings to panels.

London: Folio Society, 1961. Hardcover in worn slipcase. Gilt decorated spine and cover; translated into English by William C. Atkinson and engravings by Harold Bennett. Very minor foxing to pageblock, spine is sunned and has a small mark over title. Discreet blind-stamp on half-title page. Very good condition. AD. Hardcover. Very Good. Illus. by Bennnet, Harold. Used.

London: The Folio Society, 1961. Hardcover without jacket, in card slipcase. Very good condition. Gilt lettering to spine and gilt patterns to spine and front board. Illustrations by Harold Bennett. No notable flaws to book. Tear to spine head of slipcase, repaired with tape. Minor cracks to edges of case in a couple of other places and one or two marks but case remains very good overall. TA. Hardcover. Very Good. Illus. by Bennett, Harold. Used.

London: Folio Society. Very Good. 1961. Hardcover. Green boards, gilt and red stamping, previous owner signed on title page, else very good. .

Folio Society,, 1961. 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece, decorative title, full-page illustrations in the text and front and rear endpaper maps, some very light and occasional spotting; green buckram, upper board and backstrip elaborately framed and blocked in gilt, red top, red endpapers, a very good, bright, crisp copy in publisher's board slip-case.

(Subject: The Wars of Religion to the Middle Ages) Known today as Colombia, the author sets out to explain the little known history of this country from the settling by the conquistadores, to 1636. Translated into English by William C Atkinson. Engravings by Harold Bennett. (Published: 1961) (Publisher: Folio Society) (Pagination: 228pp, engravings) (Condition: very good. faded spine. and broken slipcase. text unmarked possibly unread.) UL-XXXXXX

London:: Folio Society,. Very Good. 1961. Hardcover. Translated from the Spanish by William C. Atkinson. First edition thus. Near fine in a very good slipcase. .

London: Folio Society, 1961. Hardback. Good/Original Slipcase in fair condition. Folio Society, London, 1961. Book condition: good. Minor shelf wear only. Gilt decorations to front green board still very bright. Similar to spine very slightly faded. Some sporadic and light foxing here and there. Original slipcase in fair condition. Split along half the length of one short edge and some general wear and scuffing. Translated into English by William C. Atkinson with engravings by Harold Bennett. Rodriguez Freile's shafts of humour and satire tell much of New Grenada (which we now know as Colombia). The reason why, of all the writings to come out of that vast territory over the three centuries of the colonial period, this is still the most read and the best loved, is perhaps because he tells so much more of human nature.

LONDON, FOLIO SOCIETY, 1961. VERY GOOD COPY WITHOUT A SLIPCASE. TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH BY WILLIAM C. ATKINSON. ENGRAVINGS BY HAROLD BENNETT.

1961 THE FOLIO SOCIETY, LONDON. VERY GOOD COPY WITH A SLIPCASE. TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH BY WILLIAM C. ATKINSON. ENGRAVINGS BY HAROLD BENNETT.