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Secondhand book for saleCecil Jane, ed.
The Four Voyages of Columbus: A History in Eight Documents, including Five by Christopher Columbus, in the Original Spanish, with English Translations.
Published New York: Dover, 1988 (“slightly altered and corrected republication” in one volume of Hakluyt Society vols. LXV [1930] & LXX [1933]).
ISBN 048625626X;
ISBN-13 9780486256269.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printed in the USA.
Size: 136×214×30mm.
Page count: reproduces pagination from the original publications: clv,188; lxxxix,164pp.
Main languages English apparatus & translations, with the Spanish originals facing.
Overall condition fair to good: this copy has some marks and creases on its covers, a bit of wear on the edges with the corners starting to fray, a small roughened patch inside the back cover, page edges a bit grubby; the spine is not creased from reading and the text appears to be free of marking.
This item £8.00
P&P inc. within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)Weight without packaging: 667g.
Contents:
1st voyage: Letter of Columbus;
2nd voyage: Letter of Dr Chanca; Memorandum of Columbus by Antonio de Torres; Extract from Andrés Bernáldez, History of the Catholic Sovereigns Ferdinand & Isabella;
33rd voyage: Letter of Columbus to their Majesties; Letter of Columbus to the Nurse;
4th voyage; Letter of Columbus to their Majesties; Relation of Diego Mendez.Illustrations: 3, monochrome
Maps & plans: 5Introduction: vol. 1, 138pp; Vol 2, 63pp, plus E. G. R. Taylor, “Columbus & the world-map”.
Notes: at foot of page
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 5pp
Indexes: 2 (the original volumes are not consolidated)[BML/hakluyt]
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