Fitzhugh and Olin (5 results)

1993. North America, Exploration, Archaeology. Smithsonian Institution Press. 271p., very good - fine cloth and good+ dust jacket, dj has slight handling.

Hardcover. Size: 8.75"x11.25", 271 pp. Very good plus condition with text clean & binding tight / slightly rubbed dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hard covers in bright condtion with a very good dust jacket, a little spotting to the top page edges, contents clean Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

4to. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. HEAVY. xv, 271 pages, b/w photos, text-figures, tables, four appendices, glossary, bibliography, index. The lower corners of the first few pages are creased. Blue cloth boards in dust-jacket. From the blurb, 'The three expeditions (1576-1578) of English explorer Martin Frobisher were among the most ambitious and best documented of the early period of British colonial expansion. The contributors are archeologists, historians, and ethnographers who discuss the background and history of the Frobisher voyages and previous investigations of the settlement site, particularly that of Charles Francis Hall, an American exsplorer who in 1861 was led by Inuit legend to camp on Kodlunarn or 'white man's island', off the southern coast of Baffin Island. The contributors reassess the structures and activities of Frobisher's men and the Inuit with whom they traded and fought.'.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Hbk 271pp 4to profusely illustrcharts graphs maps facsimile documents dj very slightly shelfworn now in protective sleeve otherwise an unread copy excellent clean tight unmarked as new.