[Rarebooks] FS: The Discovery of Florida

[Nina W. Matheson]

For consideration today:

66636.   Fidalgo d'Elvas .   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.   [San 
Francisco] Printed at the Grabhorn Press for the Book Club of California 
[1946]. Original quarter white cloth and decorated orange paper boards, 
printed paper label on the backstrip. Label of bookdealer Philip C. 
Duschnes on the rear pastedown. Small calligraphic book label of John and 
Jean Michael on the front free endpaper. Corners lightly rubbed, otherwise 
fine. One of 280 copies. Initials and decorations designed and cut by 
Mallette Dean. Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press 432.   $300.00


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