Christopher Columbus by Justin Winsor (117 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. new York, 1892; burgundy cloth covered boards; tan spine; edge and corner wear; spine edges chipped; covers darkened by age; top edge gilt; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; partial split at front hinge; interior clean and unmarked; 674 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Fourth Edition. Good reading copy of the fourth edition of this work. Top edges have minor water staining. Covers are water stained and spine and paper edges are darkened from soot that is now stabilized.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Ex-Libris and is stamped as such. Mylar protector included. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Winsor, Justin., Longmeadow Press, 1991, ncrd, Special Reprint Edition, cloth (hard cover), gift insrciption on flyleaf o/w near fine with near fine dj (price-clipped), 674 pp with index, B&W illus., tall 8vo, ISBN: 0681412816, "Reveals the truth about the private and public life of the Hero of the Age of Discovery.first published a century ago".

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Reprint of original work. Large, thick, heavy book, brown cloth with gilt design at top front and spine, 674 pages, many illustrations throughout. DJ glossy with antique color-illustration of Columbus laying claim to others' lands on front, spine and back. DJ has tiny nick at bottom front edge next to spine. Near Fine DJ/Very Fine book.

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PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Commemorative Edition. Fine unread condition brown boards with gold front cover lettering, gold spine lettering, and brown front cover and spine title lettering within a gold rectangular border, contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Preliminary Page Justin Winsor Letter to Francis Parkman dated June, 1890 and Index. The copyright page states in part: "This special reprint edition in honor of the 500th Anniversary of Christopher Columbus's discovery of America is published by Longmeadow Press." All pages are in as new unmarked condition and the spine/binding is in as new exceedingly tight condition. "A sampling of facts about Columbus from this book: His real name was Cristoforo Colombo. He was born in Genoa, Italy. His father was a weaver. The maximum speed of his ships was 4 m.p.h. The first voyage to the New World took two months and nine days. He died at age 70. His parents were Suzanna de Fontanarossa and Domenico Colombo. The site of his landing in the New World was an island in the Bahamas." - from the rear outer jacket. "This special commemorative edition - published on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus - is a reprint of Justin Winsor's original historical work, first published [over] a century ago. It addresses every question you will probably ever have about the life and times of Columbus. This book reveals the truth about the private and public life of the Hero of the Age of Discovery. In its pages, you'll read his actual correspondence. see his sketches and personal maps. learn of his family, friends, and role models . of his enemies and competitors. his astounding adventures, disheartening failures, and glorious achievements. Christopher Columbus was a living, breathing human being with passions and ideas - a man of intelligence and imagination - willing to defy his senses and believe that the earth was round, not flat. His name is synonymous with bravery, determination, leadership, and heroism. He is a man in whose honor cities, parks, boats, and even spaceships have been reverentially named. Indeed, when the astronauts first set out for the moon in 1969, their mind-boggling mission was compared - and rightly so - to that of Columbus's discovery of the New World in 1492, a date that has been ingrained in the collective American memory. But the magnitude of his accomplishments and the passage of five hundred years have rendered him larger than life. Who was the real Christopher Columbus? This is the question that this monumental volume attempts to answer. Justin Winsor (1831-1897), the author of this work and a well-respected man of letters, was a historian, poet, literary critic, fiction writer and librarian of Harvard University. Around the turn of the century, he embarked upon a voyage of his own to retrace every important aspect of Columbus's life, from his family origins to his final state of mind. Winsor was remarkably successful, and his book was originally issued in 1892, on the 400th anniversary of the great mariner's first voyage to the New World. This work will be of interest to scholars and laymen alike, for it represents an honest, well-documented search for the truth about Columbus. As such, it contains a myriad of facts, as well as intriguing suppositions and deductions - plus reproductions of ancient maps, sketches, drawings, portraits, letters, and other documents (twenty-three of which, wholly or in part, are in Columbus's own hand) - that will almost surely cast Columbus in a new light before your eyes. Furthermore, it is a book that you can proudly add to your home library, for such a Commemorative Edition as this is obtainable in its year of publication only once a century, and the 500th Anniversary of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus shall, of course, never occur again." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.

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Condition: Good. No Jacket. Good ; No jacket. 1892 Houghton, Mifflin and Company. Fourth edition, copyright 1891. NOT ex-library. Hardcover has dark maroon cloth-covered boards and a brown cloth-covered spine. Spine has a maroon leather label with gold lettering and ruled border. Front cover has gold decoration and Spanish motto. Top page edges are gilt. Black and white illustrations. Maps. Black coated endpapers. Binding tight. Front hinge barely starting to crack, but still strong. Corners and spine ends bumped and rubbed, with some fraying at tips and spine ends; approximately an eighth of an inch of the cloth is missing from the head of the spine. Covers have light surface and edge wear, as well as a few small stains. Small pencil notation on verso of front free endpaper. Pages lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. Pages clean and unmarked. Most pages unopened (uncut) at fore edge. Last page of contents has a diagonal tear which has been repaired with archival document repair tape. 674 pages. No dust jacket. Hand-written name of Samuel Mather, dated 1893 on first blank flyleaf. Imprinted bookplate on front endpaper from the library of Samuel Mather. Book plate has armorial crest with motto "Fortiter et Celeriter" and includes illustrated scene of industrial lake port with ship cargo loaders. The Mather family were Cleveland industrialists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Samuel Mather mansion on the former Millionaire's Row in Cleveland still stands as part of Cleveland State University. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.

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Condition: Good. Appears to be first edition, undated in publishing information through preface dated June 1890: however a small illustration on title page is dated 1892. Hardcover book . Maroon cloth boards with blue cloth spine, with gilt titles to spine and gilt top page edges. Black endpapers. xi, 674pp. With many engraved illustrations in plates and text. Comprehensive biography and history of Columbus and his voyages to the New World, and the geographical results. Good overall. Pages well-bound, except for slackness at front endpapers (crack to internal hinge). Covers have some light marks with bumped and abraded corners. Pages have various small spot marks to margins and gutters, with occasional browning to paper. Old bookplate residue to front pastedown.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 4th Edition. 22 x 14 cm., xi, 674 pp., maps and other illustrations, index, former owners name in pen dated Aug 5 1892, two notes in pencil indicating it had been fully read in just under a decade form 1945 to 1955 red cloth boars with gilt decoration, tan cloth binding with red and gilt label.

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Hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Gift inscription to Paris Gibson dated 1892, signed by author on introduction page. Maroon hard cover with gold lettering. Wear to corners of cover is light, but a bit more wear on spine ends. Inside, looks like first blank page is torn out, inscription on next blank page (this one is partially torn next to binding). Inside, pages seem like maybe there was some light moisture - not stained but a bit yellowed and slightly wavy in some places. No markings or tears. Signed by Author.

WINSOR, Justin. Christopher Columbus and How He Received and Imparted the Spirit of Discovery. Boston, 1891. Illus. maps. xi, 674pp. Very good in orig. cloth.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Book in very good condition. Tight spine and clean text. Gilt covered pages at the top. Please reach out with any questions. We are happy to send pictures.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Ex-library book, usual markings. Library Rebind. Hardcover/Hardback. Well read copy with some spine wear but very useable. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 706. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1892 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 706.

LeatherBound. Condition: NEW. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 698. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1891 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 698.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Christopher Columbus - And how he received and imparted the spirit of discovery is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1892.Hans Elektronisches Buch is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hans Elektronisches Buch newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future. 692 pp. Englisch.