Item #62519 Drake's Plate of Brass

Drake's Plate of Brass

Item #62519

(DRAKE, FRANCIS). Drake's Plate of Brass: Evidence of His Visit to California in 1579. San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1937. 1st ed. 57pp. Portrait frontis., plates, folding map. Orig. cloth, printed paper labels. Spine label slightly faded, else a very good or better copy. Laid in is exhibition brochure, Sir Francis Drake and the Finding of the Plate of Brass. [with] FINK, Colin G. Drake's Plate of Brass Authenticated: The Report on the Plate of Brass. San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1938. 1st ed. 28pp. Frontis., plates. Orig. cloth, printed paper labels. Light rubbing to spine ends, else very good. With announcement laid in. [with] The Plate of Brass Reexamined: A Report Issued by the Bancroft Library. Berkeley, CA: University of California, 1977. 1st ed. 83pp. Plate. Orig. printed wrapper. Fine. [with] The Plate of Brass Reexamined: A Supplementary Report. Berkeley, CA: University of California, 1979. 1st ed. 17pp. Orig. printed wrapper. Fine. [with] HART, James D. The Plate of Brass. [Berkeley, CA: The Bancroft Library, n.d.] [4pp.] Illus. Fine. [with] POWER, Robert H. The Drake Plate of Brass. [Berkeley, CA: Bancroft Library, 1979]. 4pp. Facsimile. Fine in orig. envelope. [with] Sir Francis Drake's Plate of Brass.Point Reyes, CA: Drake Navigation Guild, 1966. 1st ed. 4pp. Facsimile. [with] FARQUHAR, Francis P. and STARR, Walter A. Drake in California. [San Francisco]: California Historical Society, 1957. 15pp. Portrait frontis., plates. Orig. printed wrappers. Presentation inscription form Farquahar on verso of front wrapper. Fine. In 1936 the inscribed metal plate that Drake described in The World Encompassed was accidentally discovered beneath a rock near Greenbrae in Marin County, California, where it had lain since 1579. .

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