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Author
Harrisse, Henry, 1829-1910
Title
The discovery of North America; a critical, documentary, and historic investigation, with an essay on the early cartography of the New world, including descriptions of two hundred and fifty maps or globes existing or lost, constructed before the year 1536; to which are added a chronology of one hundred voyages westward, projected, attempted, or accomplished between 1431 and 1504; biographical accounts of the three hundred pilots who first crossed the Atlantic; and a copious list of the original names of American regions, caciqueships, mountains, islands, capes, gulfs, rivers, towns, and harbours
Publisher
London, H. Stevens and son; Paris, H. Welter Rochdale, Eng., J. Clegg, print. Aldine press
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"380 copies issued ..."
Plate XVII wanting
Rare Annex copy 2: Gift of Herbert Fisk Johnson

Subjects: Cartography; Explorers
Language English
Publication date 1892
publication_date QS:P577,+1892-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Current location
IA Collections: cornell; americana
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cu31924028668642
Source
Internet Archive identifier: cu31924028668642
https://archive.org/download/cu31924028668642/cu31924028668642.pdf

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