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MARITIME HISTORY: A HAND-LIST OF THE COLLECTION IN THE JOHN CARTER BROWN LIBRARY, 1474 to 1860.
Elliott, Daniel, Everett C. Wilkie, and Richard R. Ring (editors)
Revised edition. This is a hand-list of the Library's extensive holding of maritime material relating to all aspects of European overseas expansion. The work is topically organized into twelve categories, such as Navigation and Seamanship, Marine Architecture, Rigging, Health at Sea, Piracy & Privateering, Signals & Naval Tactics, Shipwrecks, Law of the Sea, Marine Atlases, and more. Each entry is in chronological order within those categories, and the book is completely indexed by both author and title.
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LAPIDARIO DEL REY D. ALFONSO X. CODICE ORIGINAL.
The facsimile edition of the Lapidary contained in the first 94 sheets of the ms. H.I.15 of the Library of El Escorial (Madrid), at original size (29,1 x 40,2 cm), on parchment paper printed in colors in reproduction of its 638 full-coloured miniatures and initial letters in the original. The first book to come out of Alfonso's workshop, in 1253, was written by Alfonso X the Wise. It is the first book written in Castilian prose, or early Spanish, and the first relevant scientific book written in the Iberian Peninsula and in Europe. Well preserved copy.
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