[Rarebooks] FS: Morison; s Life & Voyages of Christopher Columbus with hand-colored plates

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One of hundreds of LECs in stock, always, at all times.

MORISON, Samuel Eliot (editor). JOURNALS AND OTHER DOCUMENTS ON THE LIFE 
AND VOYAGES OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS. New York: Limited Editions Club, 
1963. Small folio (9" x 12") bound in blue natural linen buckram with a 
large embossed portrait of Columbus on the front cover and a black 
leather spine label lettered in gilt. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was so 
impressed with this book when it was first published in 1942 that he 
allowed Morrison to join the Navy as an historian. He left as a rear 
admiral in 1951 and eventually published a definitive 15-volume history 
of the United States Navy in World War II. Copy #1185 of 1500 
illustrated by Lima de Freitas, the plates having color hand-applied at 
the Walter Fischer Studio, and maps by Rafael Palacios. SIGNED by the 
illustrator on the colophon page. Small university bookplate on verso of 
front free endpaper. About Fine in Fine slipcase.               $125.00	

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