Author: Harrisse, Henry [1829-1910]
Title: Christophe Colomb, les corses et le gouvernement francais
Description: Paris, H. Welter, 1890. boards. 27x16cm, 32 pp. Recent binder's blind boards with original cover wrappers bound-in.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Not listed in Harvard University Library Hollis online catalogue. Not in Library of Congress online catalogue. Pamphlet in the controversy over Columbus' birthplace in the form of a letter from Harrisse to Abbé Casabiana, vicar at Saint-Ferdinand-des-Ternes, concerning Casabiana's article "Le berceau de Christophe Colomb et la Corse" refuting Calvi's assertion that Columbus was born on Corsica. Notes and documents: p. 13-30.

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