COLUMBUS, Chrisopher - Latin Version of 1493 of the First Letter of Columbus to the Noble Lor

1890. COLUMBUS, Chrisopher. "THE LATIN VERSION OF 1493 OF THE FIRST LETTER OF COLUMBUS TO THE NOBLE LORD RAPHAEL SANCHEZ ANNOUNCING THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA. Reproduced in fac-simile by the heliotype process, with a note and a translation [by R. H. Mayor]." [Bulletin of the Boston Public Library, Volume 9, October, 1890.] pp. 390-444, + [1] plate and [8] pp. facsimile, extracted from the Bulletin. Slim 4to. blue cloth, gilt title at spine. Ex library; bookplate to front pastedown and one other discreet mark. Free endpapers and the first leaf of text detached. Some light soiling to bottom margin of a few leaves, but a clean and good copy overall. The facsimile is of the "Ferdinand" edition of Stephen Plannck (Rome, 1493). It is preceded by Mayor's translation, which is from a different Latin text, and appeared in his Select Letters of Christopher Columbus (London, 1847) - one of the publications of the Hakluyt Society. .

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