Search Results: Journals and Other Documents On the Life and Voy… by Samuel Eliot Morison

NY: The Heritage Press, 1963. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. The cover shows some edgewear with rubbing. The binding is sound. There is age toning inside the covers. A bookplate is pasted inside the front cover. No slipcase.

New York: Heritage, 1963. hardcover. very good. Illustrated. 417 pages. 4to, decorated blue cloth, publisher's slipcase (cloth spine a bit faded and spotty, slipcase lightly worn). New York: Heritage Press, (1963). A very good copy.<br/> <br/>

Heritage Press:, 1963. 417 pages, illustrated by LimaDe Freitas. FINE HARDCOVER, FINE SLIPCASE.. Hard Cover. Fine/Not Issued with a Dust Jacket.. Illus. by Lima De Freitas. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York, New York: Heritage Press, 1963. Hardcover. Near Fine. Reprint. Nearly fine with light wear to the spine ends and a little soiling to the spine. In a very good slipcase with fading along the open side.

The Limited Editions Club, 1963. Hard cover. Very good/No jacket. #28/1500cc, signed by illustrator Lima de Freitas. Slipcase not included. Top corner of front cover is bumped and other cover corners are lightly worn. Binding is tight and inside is clean and unmarked.

New York, NY: Heritage Press, 1963. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/None as Issued. Lima de Freitas (Illustrator). Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated pale green boards w/gilt spine lettering/VG; strong & sound w/rubs to edges, corner tips and surfaces; showing light discoloration. DJ/None as Issued. Slip-case/None. Maps to endpapers. American historian, Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison (1887 - 1976) authored several works on maritime history. Winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, one of which was for "Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus" (1942), which was followed by a briefer biography, "Christopher Columbus, Marine (1955). Researching for these two books, Morison found trustworthy translations of primary source materials were scant, and therefore made translations of his own or had new ones made. This volume is an anthology of selected from those translations, and are, for the sake scholarship integrity, intentionally literal. The documents begin those… Read More

New York : The Heritage Press, 1963 Illustrated pale blue cloth boards with black blocked title slip and gilt titles to spine in publisher's blue cloth covered slip case. 290 x 220 mm approx. Maps to end papers, xvi + 418 pp Illustrated with 5 double page spread black and two colour printed + 65 b/w drawings in the style of wood cuts + Medallion head of Columbus to title by Lima de Freitas. The maps to end papers are also by the same artist and redrawn from two sections of Juan de la Cosa's world map of 1506. 7 other line maps in text all as per the Heritage Club Sandglass flyer for the book loosely laid in. VG in Near Fine slip case (Book- a little colour rubbing to extremities including spine edges, slight tanning of end paper maps in gutter- probably a reaction to the glue/ mull. No previous owner name or insc. No other defects. Slip Case - very clean with no defects).Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Due to the weight of this tome… Read More

Norwalk, CT: Heritage Press, 1963. 417 pp with 7 maps, 1 colour medallion on title spread, 5 double-page colour illust. and 59 bw illust. in text. (illustrations by Lima de Freitas). Eps: Map of the Caribbean Sea. Decorated cloth cover, gilt title on black vignette on spine.Clean. First Edition. Illustrated Boards. Near Fine/No Jacket Issued. Illus. by Lima de Freitas. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1963. Hardcover. Fine. Blue linen with embossed cover and leather spine labels gilt on a black field, large 4to., xvi, 417, (1) pages, double page color and monochrome vignette illustrations by Lima De Freitas. One of 1,500 numbered copies. Letter and notice loosely inserted. A fine copy in a fine Slipcase.

Easton, 1990. Special 500th Anniversary Edition. Full red leather, decoratively gilt. Fine. Illustrated by Lima de Freitas.

Limited Editions , 1963. Hardcover. Like New. Like new in slip case appears unused 1381/1500 signed by illustrator

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1963. Hardcover. Bookplate on the verso of the front free endpaper. About Fine in a Fine slipcase. Lima de Freitas. Folio (9" x 12") bound in full blue natural linen buckram with a large black medallion of Columbus embossed on the front cover and a gilt-lettered and decorated black leather spine label; 440 pages. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was so impressed with this book when it was first published in 1942 that he allowed Morrison to join the Navy as an historian. He left as a rear admiral in 1951 and eventually published a definitive 15-volume history of the United States Navy in World War II. Copy #39 of 1500 illustrated by Lima de Freitas with 65 black-and-white text drawings and 5 double-page spreads, the latter having color hand-applied at the Walter Fischer Studio, and maps by Rafael Palacios. SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.

New York: Heritage Press. 1963. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ slipcase. Light bump at spine crown. Light stain on slipcase panel. Illustrations by Lima De Freitas. .

New York: Heritage Press. 1963. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ slipcase. Light stain on rear slipcase panel. Illustrations by Lima De Freitas. .