The European Discovery of America: The Southern Voyages. A.D. 1492-1616.

MORISON, Samuel Eliot.

Item Number: 129493

New York: Oxford University Press, 1974.

First edition of the final volume in the great maritime historian’s European Discovery of America series. Octavo, bound in full crushed red morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, double gilt ruling and fleuron cornerpieces to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, illustrated with engravings and maps, frontispiece in color. In fine condition.

Completing Morison's monumental study of the explorers who discovered and journeyed through the coasts of the Americas, The European Discovery of America: The Southern Voyages covers not only the discovery of Latin America, including the Caribbean area and South America, but also Bermuda, Florida and California.