The discovery of North America :

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Creator
Harrisse, Henry, 1829-1910, author
Title
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...
Published
London : H. Stevens; 1892.
Identifier
oocihm.06774
06774
Subject
Explorers.
Names, Geographical -- North America.
Explorateurs.
Noms géographiques -- Amérique du Nord.
America -- Discovery and exploration -- Maps.
America -- Discovery and exploration.
America -- Maps -- Bibliography.
America -- Maps -- History.
Amérique -- Cartes -- Bibliographies.
Amérique -- Cartes -- Histoire.
Amérique -- Découverte et exploration -- Cartes.
Amérique -- Découverte et exploration.
Document source
Electronic reproduction.
Notes
"380 copies issued as follows: 10 copies on Whatman paper (for private distribution by the author) ; 10 copies on Japanese paper ; 40 copies on Dutch hand-made paper ; 320 copies on English toned paper. Copy No. 25--Dutch".
Other title information: 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.
Includes bibliographical references.
Includes indexes.
xii, 802 pages : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm.
Collection
Monographs
Language
English
URL
https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.06774