BOXER (C.R.), editor.

The Tragic History of the Sea 1589-1622. Narratives of the shipwrecks of the Portuguese East Indiamen São Thomé (1589), Santo Alberto (1593), São João Baptista (1622), and the journeys of the survivors in South East Africa.

The Hakluyt Society, Second Series. No. CXII. Eight folding maps and numerous full-page plates, including one plate with overlay. 8vo. Hardcover in blue cloth with gilt ship on front cover, gilt tile on spine, with later transparent dust jacket. Minor foxing to lower endpapers, pages opposite folding maps slightly discoloured from ink transfer, many pages uncut. xvi, 297pp. Cambridge, Published by the Hakluyt Society at the University Press, 1959.

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