A New Voyage & Description of the Isthmus of America
Author:
WAFER, LIONEL & JOYCE, L. E. ELLIOTT (Ed, Intro, Notes & Appendices)
Title:
A New Voyage & Description of the Isthmus of America
Publisher:
Hakluyt Society 1934
Description:
FIRST EDITION, super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt ship motif & blind stamp decoration to boards, deckled page edges, folded frontispiece, lxxi + 221pp, folding maps throughout, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, sl soiling to edges of front board, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping to edges with some minor loss, heavy tanning & staining to spine & front cover, light foxing)
Keywords:
first editions hakluyt society history geography exploration travel expeditions Lionel Wafer secret report Davis's expedition gold mines Darien West Indies Pacific late 17th seventeenth century Isthmus