Select Letters of Christopher Columbus: With Other Original Documents Relating to His Four Voyages to the New World.

Columbus, Christopher

ISBN 10: 1275856942 / ISBN 13: 9781275856943

Published by Gale, Sabin Americana, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Select Letters of Christopher Columbus: With Other Original Documents Relating to His Four Voyages to the New World.
• Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1275856942
• ISBN 13: 9781275856943
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Title: Select letters of Christopher Columbus: with other original documents relating to his four voyages to the New World.Author: Christopher ColumbusPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP04538500CollectionID: CTRG03-B975PublicationDate: 18700101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: English translations of these selected letters with Spanish text at foot of page. Includes index.Collation: cxlii, 254 p., [3] p. of plates: maps, port.; 23 cm

Book Description

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This volume, first published in 1847 and revised in 1870, contains an edition of the letters of Christopher Columbus and others describing his first four voyages to the New World.