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SIR FRANCIS DRAKE AS SEEN BY HIS CONTEMPORARIES.
Quinn, David Beers
With a Bibliographical Supplement by Burton Van Name Edwards.

   

- Providence : The John Carter Brown Library 1996
- small 8vo.
- stiff paper wrappers.
- xvi, 93+(1) pages.
- Order Nr. 54023
- Price: $ 18.00



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One of the greatest of British historians, David Beers Quinn, reviews in this essay some of the controversies swirling around Drake in his lifetime and brings to light the grudging admiration in which Drake was held by many Spaniards, in spite of his destructiveness to Spanish interest. With a bibliographical supplement describing more than 100 printed sources in the Library relating to Drake.

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HISTÓRIA DA COLONIZAÇÃO PORTUGUES DO BRASIL.
by Dias, Carlos Malheiro

First edition. Cartographic Director, Ernesto de Vasconcelos; Artistic Director, Rogue Gameiro. Beautifully produced history of the colonization of Brazil by Portugal. Filled with color plates, tipped-in plates, facsimiles of older documents, etc. Wear along edges. Tear in cloth along front hinge of volume two. Tear in cloth along back hinge of volume three.




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