Book #55866

Histoire Naturelle Des Indes: the Drake Manuscript in the Pierpont Morgan Library - 1st Edition/1st Printing

Ruth S. Kraemer

Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Publisher: New York, London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1996.
ISBN: 0393039943

Price: $60.00

A Fine first Edition/First Printing housed in an equally impressive dust-jacket.

This book is a translation of the seventeenth century work, Histoire Naturelle des Indes, by the Dutch scientist and explorer, Willem Janszoon Drake. The manuscript is housed at the Pierpont Morgan Library and is a valuable source of information on the natural history of the Indies.; 4to; 272 pages; Price? ? ?