The Life and Acts of Don Alonzo Enriquez de Guzman

The Life and Acts of Don Alonzo Enriquez de Guzman

Clements R. Markham, book's author

London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society

1862

Katherine Owens researched and wrote the event description in 2018.

For a description of the book, please click on the image of the event label/description or scroll to the bottom of the page for the section entitled "Text" for a transcription of the attached document.

History / Biography

SPECIAL G161 .H2 1862

English, book's contents
English, event description

To see this book on November 15, 2018 in the "Event Photographs" Collection, please go here [Photograph of Books] 05444, [Photograph of Books] 05457, and here [Photograph of Books] IMG_0602.

Transcript of event description:

THE LIFE AND ACTS OF DON ALONZO ENRIQUEZ DE GUZMAN | CLEMENTS R. MARKHAM | LONDON: PRINTED FOR THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY | 1862

Visually appealing, these covers have a plain blind stamped border and centerpiece - in this case a two-masted ship. The details of the stamp for this ship is just amazing and worthy of a close look. The plain borders and corner borders are embossed. The back matches the front but the ship does not have gold leaf. The fabric pattern is known as diaper grain, which first appeared as a book cloth pattern in the 1830s.

This is a mid-19th century facsimile of a 16th century account of a Spanish traveler through Spain, Portugal, Italy, Sicily, Flanders, Germany, the Balearic Islands (which includes Minorca, where many St. Augustine Minorcans came from), and finally Peru. Sadly, the editors and publishers of this Hakluyt Society book neglected to include maps. The Hakluyt Society was founded in 1840s England for gentlemen interested in reading about discoveries, explorations, and explorers. They republished many accounts from earlier centuries. This Society still exists and publishes today.

Book / Unpublished Print Document