Select letters of Christopher Columbus, with other original documents, relating to his four voyages to the New World / edited by R.H. Major.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Columbus, Christopher, author.

Contributor:

Major, Richard Henry, 1818-1891.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Columbus, Christopher--Correspondence.

Columbus, Christopher.

America--Discovery and exploration--Spanish--Early works to 1800.

America.

America--Early works to 1800.

Physical Description:

xc, 240 p.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

chapter First Voyage of Columbus

chapter Second Voyage of Columbus

chapter Third Voyage of Columbus

chapter 4 th Voyage of Columbus.

Notes:

First published by Ashgate Pub.

Reprint of the 1847 edition published by the Hakluyt Society.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-317-05764-3

1-315-60823-5

1-282-89237-1

9786612892370

1-4094-1507-4

9781315608235

OCLC:

929147157