The Discovery of Florida, Being a True Relation of the Vicissitudes that Attended the Governor Don Hernando de Soto and Some Nobles of Portugal in the Discovery of Florida, Now Just Given by a Fidalgo of Elvas

Fidalgo of Elvas; Buckingham Smith (trans.)

Published by Book Club of California, San Francisco, 1946

About this Item

[vii], 105, [2] pp., small folio, cream quarter cloth, decorated paper sides, printed paper title label. Large pictorial initials designed by Mallette Dean and printed in red, yellow and black. One of 280 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press on French handmade paper. Prospectus laid in. With the small bookplate of Joseph Halle Schaffner (1897-1972), a director of the Hart Shaffner and Marx clothing manufacturing firm and whose notable collection of rare books in the history of science and medicine is in the of the University of Chicago Library. Very good copy; contents fine, some of the usual dust soiling to the covers, tips rubbed, small light abrasion on front flyleaf. An AIGA Fifty Books of the Year (1947). Magee and Magee 432.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Discovery of Florida, Being a True Relation of the Vicissitudes that Attended the Governor Don Hernando de Soto and Some Nobles of Portugal in the Discovery of Florida, Now Just Given by a Fidalgo of Elvas
• Publisher: Book Club of California, San Francisco
• Publication Date: 1946
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Private press and modern fine printing