Bernard J Shapero : Rare Books

Travel

RYE, William B., translator, editor.

The Discovery and Conquest of Terra Florida, by Don Ferdinando de Soto and six hundred Spaniards his followers, written by a Gentleman of Elvas, employed in all the action, and translated out of Portuguese, by Richard Hakluyt. Reprinted from the edition of 1611. Edited, with notes and an introduction and a translation of a narrative of the Expedition by Luis Hernandez de Biedma, Factor to the same, by William B. Rye, of the British Museum.


The Hakluyt Society, London 1851. . 8vo. lxvii, 200pp., map, original blue cloth gilt, spine browned, with numbered collection sticker on lower spine, extremities a bit rubbed, blindstamp and bookplate of Royal United Service Institution.

Hakluyt Society Series I no 9.

Price: £ 200
US Dollar Price: $ 400
Stock Number: 67536