Item #931 Admiral of the Ocean Sea. A Life of Christopher Columbus. With an Introduction by Mauricio Obregon. Samuel Eliot Morison.
Well Researched Narrative of the Voyages of Columbus

Admiral of the Ocean Sea. A Life of Christopher Columbus. With an Introduction by Mauricio Obregon.

New York: Book of the Month Club, 1992. Item #931

8vo.  235 x 160.  [9 1/4 x 6 inches].  xxviii, 682, [2] pp.  Illustrated throughout with reproductions for early books and charts, chosen by Joan Paterson Kerr.  Cloth with dust jacket; in original blue cloth box; cloth of box showing some discoloration.  Otherwise a very good copy.

Later edition published as part of the American Past series by the Book of the Month.  One of the masteful biographies written by Harvard professor, Samuel Eliot Morison.  A standard work on the life of Columbus, written before the advent of critical studies of our Native Peoples.

Price: $30.00

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