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Brebner, John Bartlet.
The Explorers of North America 1492-1806.
Publisher: A.& C. Black Ltd, London;
Date of Publication: 1933
Stock Code: 14699
First edition, first printing. Octavo, pp., xv, [1], 502, plus two folding maps. Publisher’s original buff dust jacket, titled to spine and upper panel, advertisements to lower panel. Publisher’s navy cloth, titled in gilt to spine, compass vignette in gilt to upper board. Jacket price-clipped, spine-panel sunned with loss to tips, rubbing to jacket hinges, and a spot of soiling to upper panel with slight loss to head. Minor shelf wear to extremities of cloth. Occasional light, scattered foxing to contents particularly to prelims. Maps clean and neat, with a single spot of foxing to map 4. A very good copy in like jacket. A scholarly historical study of the the major expeditions which ‘discovered’ the North American continent, from Columbus to Lewis and Clark. Scarce in the original 1933 dust jacket. £45.00