The Discovery of Florida: Being a True Relation of the Vicissitudes That Attended the Governor Don Hernando de Soto and Some Nobles of Portugal in the Discovery of Florida Now Just Given by a Fidalgo of Elvas
- 1946
1946. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1946.
Folio, 115 pp. Handcolored initials and decorations by Mallette Dean. Quarter white cloth and patterned orange paper boards. Endpapers toned. Very good.
§ Edition of 280 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press for the Book Club of California on French handmade paper and set in Franciscan type. A finely printed limited edition of the first modern English translation of the Gentleman of Elva's "True Relation", which described the conquistador Don Hernando de Soto's expedition into Florida and the southeastern states.
Folio, 115 pp. Handcolored initials and decorations by Mallette Dean. Quarter white cloth and patterned orange paper boards. Endpapers toned. Very good.
§ Edition of 280 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press for the Book Club of California on French handmade paper and set in Franciscan type. A finely printed limited edition of the first modern English translation of the Gentleman of Elva's "True Relation", which described the conquistador Don Hernando de Soto's expedition into Florida and the southeastern states.
Details
Title
The Discovery of Florida: Being a True Relation of the Vicissitudes That Attended the Governor Don Hernando de Soto and Some Nobles of Portugal in the Discovery of Florida Now Just Given by a Fidalgo of Elvas
Author
Smith, Buckgingham (trans); Hammond George P. (Intro); Dean, Mallette (Illus)
Condition
Unknown
Date
1946