Hopeful Travellers: Italian Explorers, Missionaries, Merchants and Adventurers from the Middle Ages to Modern Times, an Exhibition in the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, 30 January - 27 April 2007 by Healey, Robin - 2007

Toronto: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto,, 2007 Book. Near Fine. Original Wraps. 1st Canadian Edition. Catalogue of an exhibition of books and maps at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, January 30 to April 27, 2007. This exhibition is about travellers, and the exhibits are for the most part accounts of their travels. There are few restrictions: the journeys will be to anywhere in the world, at any time from the thirteenth to the twentieth centuries. Some of the books and maps were published as recently as this century, others were first printed in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The travellers' tales were most often written down by the travellers themselves, or perhaps dictated to amanuenses, soon after their return. Not all are truthful, though most claim to be. One restriction is self-evident: for the journeys to have been recorded at all they must have been at least partly successful. The second restriction is more interesting: each of the… Read More

Toronto: University of Toronto Library, 2007. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good/No Dj. 8vo. pp. 6 152.

Toronto: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, 2007. First Edition . Card Covers. Fine. Companion catalogue to the book and map exhibition held at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, January 30 to April 27, 2007. 152 pages with bibliography, 33 B&W reproductions, 12 full-colour and 5 full-colour fold-out panels. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Uncommon.

Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto Library, 2007. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Toronto: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library/University of Toronto, 2007. First Edition. Printer Wrapper. Fine. 8vo. Frontis., 152 pp., illus. + 5 fold-out plates. Catalogue of an exhibition at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, 30 January - 27 April 2007. Preface by Richard Landon. Catalogue and Exhibition by Robin Healey. General Editors Pearce J. Carefoote, Anne Dondertman and Philip Oldfield. As new copy.