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 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
Harrisse, Henry
creator
text
bibliography
biography
ne
Amsterdam
N. Israel
1961
monographic
eng
xii, 802 p. maps (part fold. (6 inserted)) 26 cm.
Imprint on mounted label: New York, W. S. Heinman.
Bibliographical footnotes.
Cartography
Explorers
America
Discovery and exploration
North America
History
E101 .H32 1961
973.1
62051973
DLC
740711
20160527190213.0
125002