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ROWSE , A L , MA . , D Lit THE EXPANSION OF ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND
LONDON , FIRST EDITION MACMILLAN 1955 First Ediiton Hard Copy VG G+
450 pages , red boards gilt lettering , minor browning to feps , no incscsp,clean copy , ist ed , sound bindings , - the dustjacket beige/red stripes the beige paper browning to spine and edges, small closed tear to top/f/r , minor grubbiness to rear , in the main complete with 2x2mm loss tail of spine and 5x20mm loss to top spine , not price clipped , A Rowse born Cornwall 1903 - educated Oxford - elected Fellow of All Souls College at age 21 yrs - lifetime devotion to historical research and writing.. Here is a work combining scholarship with imagination ,common sense and poetry....here he describes the Elizabethan expansion , - Drake , Essex , Raleigh , Sir Philip Sidney , first Russian trade , the Armada , North West passage, first India and far east trade . illusrated 27 mono plates , 11 chpts [ the borderlands Cornwall ,Scotland / Welsh border/ Celtic Ireland /Ireland colonisation/ Oceanic voyages - exploration / American colonisation/sea stuggles Spain/Armada and after/Land war s- military /Netherlands / the Irish war]
Price:
8.00 GBP
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