Notes on Columbus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harrisse, Henry, 1829-1910.

Contributor:

Riverside Press (Cambridge, Mass.), printer.

Robert Dechert Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Latin

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Columbus, Christopher--Bibliography.

Columbus, Christopher.

Discoveries in geography.

America--Discovery and exploration--Bibliography.

America.

Genre:

Bibliographies.

Penn Provenance:

Dechert, Robert (donor) (Dechert Collection copy)

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages, 128 pages : illustrations ; 33 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Printed at the Riverside Press, MDCCLXV [1865]

Language Note:

Some of the text in Spanish and Latin includes an English translation.

Notes:

By Henry Harrisse. Cf. Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 30603.

"Ninety-nine copies printed, two of which on India paper; all for private distribution"--Half-t.p. verso.

Hand-colored title vignette (coat of arms).

Local Notes:

Dechert Collection copy is no. 65 of a limited ed. of 99 copies. Cf. half-t.p. verso.

Dechert Collection copy has author's name supplied in ms. in pencil on title leaf.

Dechert Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Robert Dechert, Esq., with his typescript description of this copy laid in.

Dechert Collection copy bound in three-quarter gold-tooled red morocco over marbled boards; 5 raised, gold-tooled bands on spine; gold-tooled spine panels; title and place and date of printing stamped in gold on spine; marbled endpapers; gilt tops; untrimmed fore- and tail edges.

Dechert Collection copy has newspaper clippings from the New York Post (21 August 1884) containing a review of Harisse's Christophe Colomb affixed to front pastedown and front free endpaper; newspaper clipping from an unidentified publication containing a poem titled "Christopher C-" affixed to front free endpaper; newspaper clippings from the "Tribune" (23 August 1885) headed "Discovery of America" affixed to verso of back free endpaper; two paper slips, each with bookseller's description of other copies(?) of this work, 1 each affixed to front pastedown and verso of back free endpaper.

Dechert Collection copy has invoice for the purchase of this copy from Charles P. Everitt (New York, N.Y.) dated 7 December 1939 laid in; newspaper clipping from the Philadelphia Inquirer (2 October 1949) headed "What is So Rare" by George J.C. Grasberger laid in; p. [949]-958 of a special number of the Antiquarian Bookman (vol. 10, no. 15, 11 October 1952) titled "The Columbus Letter" laid in.

Dechert Collection copy: front free endpaper and two following blank leaves detached from spine.

OCLC:

931157473