Add this copy of A New Voyage and Description of the Isthmus of America; to cart. $120.00, very good condition, Sold by Sequitur Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Boonsboro, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1934 by Printed For The Hakluyt Society.
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Seller's Description:
Very Good. [Interesting provenance, previously owned by Roy Bryce-Laporte. ] lxxi, 221 pp, 4 foldout plates, including foldout frontis of Wafer's handwriting & signature, 4 folding maps including 2 colored, index. Hardcover and dust jacket in mylar. Large tears to jacket with loss. Good binding and cover. Tanning to DJ. Lacking some of DJ spine. Owners stamp (Laporte) to fep. Clean, unmarked pages. "Born in the Republic of Panama of West Indian ancestry, Roy Simon Bryce-Laporte earned degrees from Panama Canal College (AA), the University of Nebraska (BS, MA), and the University of California-Los Angeles (PhD) and went on to become a nationally and internationally known scholar. Considered a pioneer in the study of U.S. immigration of blacks of various cultures, he focused on comparative and historical studies of African-American, African-Caribbean, African-Hispanic, and other 'New World' black experiences and was particularly interested in the 'new immigration' of people of African descent into the United States."-Colgate University.