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Sale 476: Americana - Travel & Exploration - Cartography (#476) 03/29/2012 11:00 AM PDT Closed
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Lot #88 Two volumes on "Drake's Plate of Brass" - 2 copies each

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Heading:

(Drake, Sir Francis)

Title:

Two volumes on "Drake's Plate of Brass" - 2 copies each

Author:

**

Place Published:

San Francisco

Publisher:

California Historical Society

Date Published:

1936-37

Description:

2 volumes, including: Drake's Plate of Brass: Evidence of his Visit to California in 1579. Tan cloth. 1937. * Fink, Colin G. and E.P. Polushkin. Drake's Plate of Brass Authenticated: The Report on the Plate of Brass. Cloth. Published as a sequel to the preceding volume. 1938.

2 copies of each title. The story of the discovery and authentication of the historic brass plate purportedly left behind by Sir Francis Drake upon his discovery of California, later determined to have been a hoax.

Condition:

Fine.

Item#:

224662

Headline:

3 vols on Drake's Plate of Brass 1937-8
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