Author: THACHER, John Boyd:
Title: The continent of America. Its discovery and its baptism. An essay on the nomenclature of the old continents. A critical and bibliographical inquiry into the naming of America and into the growth of the cosmography of the new world; together with an attempt to establish the landfall of Columbus on Watlin Island, and the subsequent discoveries and explorations on the main land by Americus Vespucius. (Reprint).
Description: Amsterdam, Meridian, 1971, in-4°, XX + 270 p., richly illustrated in the text and full page, and with 14 fac-simile maps, original cloth binding. ¶ Unabridged reprint of the edition, New York 1896. 'The chief purpose of this book is to establish the time and the place of the naming of America. Baptism suggests birth, and the naming of America leads us back to its discovery.' (Preface). Please notify before visiting to see a book. Prices are excl. VAT/TVA (only Switzerland) & postage.

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