stiff paper wrappers
2003 · Providence
by Hattendorf, John B.R.
Providence: The John Carter Brown Library, 2003. stiff paper wrappers. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. xxii, 204 pages. Catalogue of an exhibition of rare books, maps, charts, prints and manuscripts relating to maritime history from the collection of the John Carter Brown Library. "The Boundless Deep..." addresses the epic story of the European expansion across the ocean, beginning with the Portuguese voyages down the west coast of Africa in the middle of the fifteenth century and culminating in the great scientific expeditions of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This maritime achievement, which on land often caused extraordinary and painful (truncated)