Description: Hardcover. 4to. Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1927. 290 pgs. Illustrated with 5 full-page colored maps, including frontispiece, one folded maps, 21 maps in-text. 5 headpieces, 5 tailpieces, and 5 decorative initials. Maps adapted from original sources by Valenti Angelo, who also designed the text ornaments. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper by printer Ed Grabhorn: First edition, limited to 1000 copies. Bound in original half vellum and brown paper covered boards. Boards have wear present to the extremities of the boards (bump present to the top edge of the front board. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. One of “Elizabeth’s Explorers” alongside Hawkins and Thomas Cavendish, Drake was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe from 1577-80. The Grabhorn Press founded in San Francisco in 1920 was "one of the foremost producers of finely printed books in twentieth-century America." Signed Ed Grabhorn Press Francis Drake & Other Early Explorers John Robertson Track Page Views WithAuctiva's FREE Counter
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Author: John Robertson
Binding: Hardcover
Character Family: Francis Drake and Other Early Explorers
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Language: English
Modification Description: Signed by Ed Grabhorn on the TItle Page
Modified Item: Yes
Original/Facsimile: Original
Personalized: Yes
Place of Publication: San Francisco, CA
Publisher: Grabhorn Press
Region: North America
Signed: Yes
Special Attributes: Collector's Edition, Illustrated, Limited Edition, Luxury Edition, Grabhorn Press, Francis Drake & The Age of Exploration
Subject: Americana
Topic: Francis Drake & The Age of Exploration
Year Printed: 1927
