Encyclopedia Of Exploration To 1800

(Potts Point, NSW, Australia): Hordern House Rare Books Pty. Ltd, 2003. cloth, color dust jacket. 4to. cloth, color dust jacket. xv, 1168 pages. A comprehensive reference guide to the history and literature of exploration, travel and colonization from the earliest times to the year 1800. First edition. Reference for the history of world exploration, travel and colonization until the… Read more about this item

Potts Point, NSW, Australia, Hordern House, 2003.. FIRST EDITION. Large 4º (28.8 x 22 cm.), publisher's gilt–stamped Saifu cloth with illustrated dust jacket, 3 silk place markers. New. xv, 1168 pp. *** FIRST EDITION. First volume of this massive, extremely useful publication, filling what had been a reference lacuna. It contains 2,327 articles in 1.2 million words, with… Read more about this item

Sydney, Hordern House. 2003. Original publisher's green cloth hardback, gilt lettering spine and frontcover, pictorial dustjacket, 3 silver ribbons, very thick 4to: xvi, 1168pp., 2327 articles / entries, notes & references, illustrations. Very fine copy - as new. Volume 1: Encyclopedia of Exploration.