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The voyage from Lisbon to India, 1505-6 : being an account and journal by Albericus Vespuccius tr. from the contemporary Flemish, and ed. with prologue and notes by C.H. Coote
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Springer, Balthasar, fl. 1509.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Almeida, Francisco de, approximately 1450-1510.
- Almeida, Francisco de.
- Voyages and travels.
- Africa--Discovery and exploration--Portuguese.
- Africa.
- East Indies--Discovery and exploration--Portuguese.
- East Indies.
- Physical Description:
- xxvii, [1], 55, [1] p. : facsim. ; 21.5 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : B.F. Stevens, 1894.
- Notes:
- Facsimile reproduction of the garbled Flemish translation of Springer's Latin account of the Almeida expedition to the East Indies (Antwerp, Jan van Doesborch, 1508) with English translation by G. F. and Mrs. G. F. Barwick interleaved. Erroneously believed by the editor to contain "the hitherto unidentified letter from Vespucci to Lorenzo di Pier Francisco de Medici which professes to give an account of the voyage from Lisbon [to India]" cf. Pref. and Harrisse, Americus Vespucius: a critical ... review of two recent English books concerning that navigator. London, 1895.
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