Author: PRESCOTT, WILLIAM HICKLING
Title: History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella
Description: New York: The Heritage Press, 1967. Hardcover. William Hickling Prescott's landmark work of Spanish history first appeared in 1837 and is presented here in a handsome Heritage Press reprint edition. Edited, and with a preface, by C. Harvey Gardiner, with eye-catching color illustrations by Lima De Freitas. With brightly colored map of Spain at endpapers. Sandglass leaflet not present. --- With De Freitas color portraits of the subjects on paper-covered boards, backed in olive quarter cloth with titling in gilt on red spine block. Volume housed in De Freitas illustrated paper-covered slipcase. --- An about-Near Fine copy: clean, tightly-bound, bright and lacking noticeable damages. Good-only, structurally sound slipcase with considerable soiling & a few small tears to paper covering.; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; xxiv, 294 pages. Near Fine .

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