Encyclopedia Of Exploration 1800 To 1850.
£80.00
Publisher
Hordern House.
Place
Potts Point, NSW.
Date
2004
Synopsis
A comprehensive reference guide to the history and literature of exploration, travel and colonization between the years 1800 and 1850.
Item Description
Large 4to. 11.25 x 8.5 inches. xi + [i] + 690 pp. Text in double columns. Bound in original green cloth, gilt, in unclipped pictorial dust wrapper. A fine copy. Pictorial endpapers. Decorated by publisher's device on title page. A detailed alphabetically arranged guide to the history of world exploration, travel and colonisation to between the years 1800 and 1850. It includes 732 major articles and index entries covering over 3000 travellers and 1000 ships. The second in a series of encyclopaedias by Raymond John Howgego (1946-), travelle, explorer and writer.
[Stock No. 28604]
