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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 by Henry Harrisse
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Od .278
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harrisse, Henry, 1829-1910.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cartography.
- Explorers.
- America--Disc. and explor.
- America.
- North America--Hist.
- North America.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 802 p., 1 leaf : ill., xxiii maps (4 double) ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : H. Stevens and son ; Paris : H. Welter ; Rochdale, England : J. Clegg, print. Aldine press, 1892.
- Notes:
- Plate XVII wanting.
- Local Notes:
- "380 copies issued ... 40 copies on Dutch hand-made paper ... Copy no. 30 (Dutch.)"
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