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Author Columbus, Christopher.

Title Select letters of Christopher Columbus : with other original documents relating to this four voyages to the new world / edited by R.H. Major.

Publication Info. Surrey [England] : Ashgate, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume (various pagings)) : illustrations.
Spanish language
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Works issued by the Hakluyt Society
Works issued by the Hakluyt Society.
Contents Cover -- EDITOR'S PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- LA LETTERA -- FIRST VOYAGE OF COLUMBUS -- SECOND VOYAGE OF COLUMBUS -- MEMORIAL -- THIRD VOYAGE OF COLUMBUS -- LETTER -- FOURTH VOYAGE OF COLUMBUS -- AN ACCOUNT -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- X -- Y.
Summary A revised translation of the documents in First Series 2, with the editor's reply to J.A. Froude's strictures on the earlier edition in the Westminster Review (1852) and in his Short Studies on Great Subjects, vol. 2. Contains the following: Introduction.--Dati, G. La lettera dellisole che ha trovato nuovamente il re dispagna. [At end] a di XXVI. doctobre. 14.93. Florentie.--Bibliography [of the Incunabula of Columbus' first letter]--First voyage: A letter sent by Columbus to Luis de Santangel chancellor of the exchequer. [Ambrosian text]--Second voyage: A letter addressed to the Chapter of Seville by Dr. Chanca.--Memorial of the results of the second voyage. 30th of January 1494.--Third voyage: Narrative of the voyage which Don Christopher Columbus made ... as he sent it to their Majesties.--Letter ... to the (quondam) nurse of the prince John, 1500.--Letter ... to the most Christian and mighty sovereigns. Jamaica, July 7, 1503.--A narrative given by Diego Mendez. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1870.
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Subject Columbus, Christopher -- Correspondence.
Columbus, Christopher.
Genre/Form Correspondence.
Subject Columbus, Christopher.
America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish -- Early works to 1800.
America.
Discoveries in geography.
Chronological Term Early works to 1800
Subject America -- Early accounts to 1600.
Chronological Term Early accounts to 1600
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Early works.
Records and correspondence.
Personal correspondence.
Personal correspondence.
Added Author Major, Richard Henry, 1818-1891.
Hakluyt Society.
Other Form: Print version: Major, Richard Henry. Select Letters of Christopher Columbus : With other Original Documents relating to this Four Voyages to the New World (2nd Edition). Farnham : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, ©2010 9781409413097
ISBN 9781409415480 (electronic book)
1409415481 (electronic book)
1409413098 (Trade Cloth)
9781409413097 (Trade Cloth)
9781409413097 (hardback)