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Sampson Low, Son and Marston, 1869. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1869. No Edition Remarks. 190 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Red cloth with decorations. Black and white illustrated frontispiece. Expected library inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Slight cracking to gutters with exposed netting, pages slightly loose. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Heavier to endpapers and pastedowns. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Slight crushing to spine ends. Tears to cloth to spine. Slight staining to both boards.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The The Remarkable Life, Adventures and Discoveries of Sebastian Cabot of Bristol:The Founder of Great Britain's Maritime Power, Discoverer of America, and its First Colonizer.

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The The Remarkable Life, Adventures and Discoveries of Sebastian Cabot, of Bristol.

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The The Remarkable Life, Adventures and Discoveries of Sebastian Cabot.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The The Remarkable Life, Adventures and Discoveries of Sebastian Cabot.

Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The The Remarkable Life, Adventures and Discoveries of Sebastian Cabot, of Bristol.

Hardback. New.

Hardback. New.

Hardback. New.

London : S. Low, son, and Marston, 1869. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked decorated cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall: tight, bright, clean and strong. Minor library marks remain. Physical description; xv, 190 p., 1 l. : front. (port.), map ; 20 cm. Subjects; Cabot, Sebastian 1474 (ca.)-1557. America — Discovery and exploration — British.

London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1869. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Original publisher's brown cloth with black and gilt decoration on the front cover and spine, pp.xv, 190; complete with half-title, engraved frontispiece portrait, engraved map; Engraved frontispiece a little foxed. No previous owner's names, not exlibrary. Overall in VERY GOOD condition. CABOT, JOHN [GIOVANNI CABOTO] (1450-1498), Italian navigator and discoverer of North America, was born in Genoa, but in 1461 went to live in Venice, of which he became a naturalized citizen in 1476. During one of his trading voyages to the eastern Mediterranean, Cabot paid a visit to Mecca, then the greatest mart in the world for the exchange of the goods of the East for those of the West. On inquiring whence came the spices, perfumes, silks and precious stones bartered there in great quantities, Cabot learned that they were brought by caravan from the north-eastern parts of farther Asia. Being versed in a knowledge of the sphere,… Read More