Select Letters of Christopher Columbus with Other Original Documents

Select Letters of Christopher Columbus with Other Original Documents PDF

Author: Richard Henry Major

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Company

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9781409412687

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This volume brings together, translated and edited by R.H. Major, five letters by Columbus describing his first, third, and fourth voyages; another by Dr Chanca, physician, descriptive of the second voyage; and an extract from the will of Diego Mendez, one of Columbus's officers on the fourth voyage. Includes Spanish texts at the foot of the page. Two copies of this edition were printed in vellum and one presented to the British Museum. For a second edition see First Series 43; for a third edition see Second Series 65 and 70. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1847.

Select Letters of Christopher Columbus with other Original Documents relating to this Four Voyages to the New World

Select Letters of Christopher Columbus with other Original Documents relating to this Four Voyages to the New World PDF

Author: R.H. Major

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-05-15

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 131705766X

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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.

Select Letters of Christopher Columbus

Select Letters of Christopher Columbus PDF

Author: Christopher Columbus

Publisher: Nabu Press

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 9781289439569

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