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Texts

Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo
Cabrillo’s Log, 1542-1543: A Voyage of Discovery. A Summary by Juan Páez. (pb) £8.50

André Thevet
Portraits from the Age of Exploration: Selections “Les vrais pourtraits et views des hommes illustres”; ed. Roger Schlesinger. (hb) £6.00

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Secondary sources

Glenn Burger, Lesley B. Cormack, Jonathan Hart, Natalia Pylypiuk, eds.
Making Contact: Maps, Identity and Travel. (pb) £12.50

Edward Burman
The World Before Columbus, 1100-1492. (hb) £6.00

Don Carleton
Ireland the Great: How the Irish brought Christianity to North America 1500 years ago. (pb) £6.50

Irene M. Franck & David M. Brownstone
Across Africa and Arabia. (hb) £5.00

Andrea di Robilant
Venetian Navigators: The Mystery of the Voyages of the Zen Brothers. (pb) £6.00

Cyrus H. Gordon
Before Columbus: Links Between the Old World and Ancient America. (hb) £8.00

John Hale
Renaissance Exploration. (pb) £5.00

Robert McGhee
The Arctic Voyages of Martin Frobisher: An Elizabethan Adventure.(hb) £3.50

De Lamar Jensen, ed.
The Expansion of Europe: Motives, Methods, and Meanings. (pb) £2.00

J. J. Jusserand
English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages; 3rd edn. (hb) £5.00
English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages; 4th edn. (pb) £4.50

Margaret Wade Labarge
Medieval Travellers: The Rich and Restless. (hb) £6.00
Medieval Travellers: The Rich and Restless. (pb) £8.50

G. J. Marcus
The Conquest of the North Atlantic. (pb) £3.50

Farley Mowat
The Alban Quest: The Search for a Lost Tribe. (hb) £6.00

J. H. Parry
The Age of Reconnaissance: Discovery, Exploration and Settlement 1450-1650. (pb) £6.00
The Discovery of the Sea. (hb) £10.00

G. V. Scammell
The Great Age of Discovery, 1400-1650. (pb) £5.00

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Books & journals containing related material

[Sale Catalogue, no. 1036].
Bookhands of the Middle Ages: Medieval Manuscript Leaves Principally from a Collection Formed in the 19th Century. (pb) £10.00

Richard Barber
A Strong Land and a Sturdy: England in the Middle Ages. (hb) £1.50

Robert-Henry Bautier
The Economic Development of Medieval Europe. (pb) £6.00

R. C. Bridges and P. E. H. Hair, eds.
Compassing the Vast Globe of the Earth: Studies in the History of the Hakluyt Society, 1846-1996. (hb) £8.00

Arthur Bryant
Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from the Earliest Times to the 15th Century. (pb) £2.00

Henrietta Buckmaster
All About Sir Walter Raleigh. (hb) £6.00

Evan S. Connell
El Dorado and Other Pursuits. (pb) £5.00

Kevin Crossley-Holland, trans.
The Anglo-Saxon World. (hb) £12.50
The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology. (pb) £5.00

Felipe Fernández-Armesto
1492: The Year Our World Began. (pb) £4.00

Norman H. Finkelstein
The Other 1492: Jewish Settlement in the New World. (pb) £6.00

Sealy Gilles and Sylvia Tomasch, eds.
Text and Territory: Geographical Imagination in the European Middle Ages. (hb) £20.00
Text and Territory: Geographical Imagination in the European Middle Ages. (pb) £10.00

Giraldus Cambrensis [Gerald of Wales]
The Itinerary through Wales; Description of Wales; trans. R. C. Hoare; intro. W. Llewelyn Williams. (hb) £8.50

Denys Hay
The Medieval Centuries; revised edn. (pb) £2.50
(ed.): New Cambridge Modern History: 1, The Renaissance 1493-1520. (pb) £9.00

Siegfried Huber
Entdecker und Eroberer: Deutsche Konquistadoren in Südamerika. (hb) £6.00

Margaret Irwin
That Great Lucifer: A Portrait of Sir Walter Ralegh. (pb) £2.50

Jacob d’Ancona, trans. David Selbourne
The City of Light. (hb) £8.00

Donald S. Johnson
Phantom Islands of the Atlantic: The Legends of Seven Lands That Never Were. (hb) £6.00

Charles Kightly
A Mirror of Medieval Wales: Gerald of Wales and His Journey of 1188. (pb) £4.50

Margaret Wade Labarge
A Baronial Household of the Thirteenth Century. (hb) £10.00

Hans Olav Lien
The Discovery of America: The Deception of the Millennium. (pb) £20.00

Barnet Litvinoff
1492: The Year and the Era. (hb) £10.00

Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah. (pb) £3.50

Christine Meek and Catherine Lawless, eds.
Studies on Medieval and Early Modern Women: Pawns or Players? (pb) £7.00

Gavin Menzies
1421: The Year China Discovered the World. (hb) £6.00

Michel Mollat and Paul Adam, eds.
Les aspects internationaux de la découverte océanique aux XVe et XVIe siècles: Actes du cinquième Colloque International d’Histoire Maritime. (pb) £10.00

J. Basil Oldham
The Renaissance. (hb) £4.50

Michael Senior
Did Prince Madog Discover America? An Investigation. (pb) £2.50

Tim Severin
The Brendan Voyage: an epic crossing of the Atlantic by leather boat. (hb) £6.00
The Brendan Voyage. (pb) £6.00

Andrew Sinclair
The Sword and the Grail: Of the Grail and the Templars and a True Discovery of America. (hb) £10.00

Dominic Tweddle and Richard Hall
Viking Ships. (pb) £12.00

John Ure
Prince Henry the Navigator. (hb) £6.00

Jennifer C. Ward
English Noblewomen in the Later Middle Ages. (hb) £6.00
English Noblewomen in the Later Middle Ages. (pb) £6.00

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Modern fiction & literature

Robert Nye
Voyage of the Destiny. (pb) £6.00

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