Americus Vespuccius : a critical and documentary review of two recent English books concerning that navigator / by Henry Harrisse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harrisse, Henry, 1829-1910 19780

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vespucci, Amerigo, 1451-1512--1158.

Vespucci, Amerigo.

Springer, Balthasar--45946.

Springer, Balthasar.

Physical Description:

72, [12] p. : ill. ; 22 cm. (8vo)

Place of Publication:

London : B.F. Stevens, 1895.

Notes:

Review of "The letters of Amerigo Vespucci, and other documents illustrative of his career. Translated, with notes and an introduction, by Clements R. Markham." 1894. (Hakluyt society, v. 90): and "The voyage from Lisbon to India, 1505-6. Being an account and journal by Albericus Vespuccius. Translated from the contemporary Flemish, and edited with a prologue and notes by C.H. Coote. 1894. The reviewer identifies the supposed "account and journal by Vespuccius" as a garbled Flemish version of Balthasar Springer's Latin account of the Almeida expedition, pub. by Jan van Doesborch, Antwerp, 1508. The Latin account was printed for the first time by Martene and Durand in their "Voyage litteraire de deux religieux bénédictins de la Congrégation de s. Maur." Paris, 1724, from a manuscript, formerly in possession of Baron Guillaume de Crassier, now in the Library of the University of Glessen. of. B. Springer's Indienfahrt...von F. Schultze, Strassburg 1902.

List of books by the same author: p. 69-72.

Publisher's advertisement: 12 p. (at end).

Local Notes:

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