De insulis nuper inventis.
The letter of Christopher Columbus announcing the discovery of the New World. A fac-simile of the earliest edition with illustrations,
reproduced for John S. Kennedy ...

Description

Main Author

Columbus, Christopher

Language(s)

Latin

Published

New York [Priv. print.] 1890.

Note

Facsimile of the Latin version printed at Basel(?) by Bergmann de Olpe(?) 1493, "the earliest edition known with pictorial illustrations"; made from the copy in the Lenox library.
Black letter.
Caption title: De Insulis inuentis. / Epistola Cristoferi Colom (cui etas nostra / multũ debet: de Insulis in mari Indico nup / inuẽtis. Ad quas perquirendas octauo antea / mens: auspicijs et ere Inuictissimi Fernandi / Hispaniarum Regis missus fuerat) ad Mag- / nificum dũm Raphaelez Sanxis: eiusdẽ sere- / nissimi Regis Thesaurariũ missa. quam nobi / lis ac litterat' vir Aliander & Cosco: ab His- / pano ydeomate in latinũ conuertit: tercio kl's / Maij. M.ccc.xciij. Pontificatus Alexandri / Sexti Anno Primo.

Physical Description

2 p. l., [20] p. illus. 19 cm.

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