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Horner: The Treasure Galleons

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Horner: The Treasure Galleons
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Horner, Dave. THE TREASURE GALLEONS. Dodd, Mead & Company, New York. 1971. 8vo. xxviii, 259 pages. Original light blue cloth, lettered in silver, protected jacket. First US edition. Maps. charts. Glossary. Bibliography. b&w historical, excavation, coin and antiquities photos. English text. The David Baker Library. Fine. This book contains 12 stories of undiscovered (as of 1971) sunken treasure ships. Included are chapters about Cortez's flagship, 'Trinidad'; the 1563 fleet that sank in the Bahamas; 'Las Cinque Chagas' lost in the Azores in 1594; 4 galleons of the 1605 fleet that sank on the Serranilla Bank; the 'Atocha', which Mel Fisher found and salvaged; the capitana of the 1654 fleet that sank off the coast of Ecuador; the 'Maravillas ' wreck on Little Bahama Bank (1656); the 'San Jose' which sank in 1706 off Cartagena, Colombia with a rich load of gold; and the 'Guadalupe', which went down in the Outer Banks of North Carolina in 1750; 'La Galga' which sank off the Virginia coast in 1750; the 'Juno' which sank off the New Jersey coast in 1802; and the 'Sagunto' lost off the coast of New England in 1813. Lot weight: 1 lbs 10oz. Subject(s): Sunken Treasure.