Author: TOWLE, George M.
Title: Pizarro: His Adventures and Conquests
Description: Boston, Lee and Shepard, Publishers, 1878. Hardcover. 12mo. Green cloth with gilt and black lettering and decorations. vii, 327pp. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, decorative endpapers. Very good. Other than a ¼" cloth gouge near tail of spine, only mild edgewear; nonauthorial 1883 gift inscription on inner flyleaf. A tight, nice later printing of this second volume in the "Young Folks' Heroes of History" series, to which Towle (1841-93) contributed this and five other explorer biographies between 1878 and 1882. Attractive despite small spine mar. .

Keywords: Travel & Exploration Children's


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