Author: John Stevens Cabot Abbott
Title: The Spanish Cavalier, or, de Soto, the Discoverer
Description: London, Ward, Lock & Co, 1880 . Cloth. A very scarce biographical study of the life of the Spanish explorer, illustrated throughout. A very scarce illustrated biographical study from American historian and Pastor John Stevens Cabot Abbott.Within this work Abbott explores the life and adventures of Spanish explorer and conquistador Hernando de Soto, the first European documented as having crossed the Mississippi River.This work is Issue 8 of 'The Boy's Illustrated Library of Heroes, Patriots, and Pioneers', with other issues featuring such figures as Columbus, Franklin and Washington.With a twenty-eight page publisher's catalogue to the rear. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to spine head and tail, with discolouration to back strip. Binding somewhat strained to centre of text block, loosening in places. Pages clean and bright. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .

Keywords: Hernando de Soto Explorer Mississipi Explorer Not Stated


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