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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 a
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 a Author:Henry Harrisse REPRINT. Octavo. xii, 802 p., 23 leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps. London : Henry Stevens and Son ; Paris : H. Welter, 1892. A standard work on the early discovery of North America. "The book is a monument of industry and research, and every scholar must feel a kind of personal obligation to its author Part First deals with th... more »e voyages, from that of John Cabot in 1497 to that of Estevan Gomez in 1524-1525. In part two Mr. Harrisse describes the early cartography, the maps of Seville and St. Die, the Portuguese Charts and the Lusitano-Germanic maps, of which he distinguishes five types. Part three presents a catalogue of the oldest maps of America; Part four, a chronology of voyages from 1431 to 1504; and part five, biographies of pilots and cartographers for the period 1492-1550."-Hurlbut, Journal of the American Geographical Society of New York. Vol. 24 (1892), pp. 565-578. Hardbound. 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« less