Select Letters of Christopher Columbus with other Original Documents relating to this Four Voyages to the New World


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A revised translation of the documents in First Series 2, with the editor's reply to J. A. Froude's strictures on the earlier edition in the Westminster Review (1852) and in his Short Studies on Great Subjects, vol. 2. Contains the following: Introduction.--Dati, G. La lettera dellisole che ha trovato nuovamente il re dispagna. [At end] a di XXVI. doctobre. 14.93. Florentie.--Bibliography [of the Incunabula of Columbus' first letter]--First voyage: A letter sent by Columbus to Luis de Santangel chancellor of the exchequer. [Ambrosian text]--Second voyage: A letter addressed to the Chapter of Seville by Dr. Chanca.--Memorial of the results of the second voyage. 30th of January 1494.--Third voyage: Narrative of the voyage which Don Christopher Columbus made ... as he sent it to their Majesties.--Letter ... to the (quondam) nurse of the prince John, 1500.--Letter ... to the most Christian and mighty sovereigns. Jamaica, July 7, 1503.--A narrative given by Diego Mendez. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1870.







Select Letters of Christopher Columbus, with Other Original Documents


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Select Letters of Christopher Columbus, with Other Original Documents, Relating to His Four Voyages to the New World


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Select Letters of Christopher Columbus: With Other Original Documents, Relating to His Four Voyages


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Four Voyages to the New World


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First published in 1847 under title: Select letters of Christopher Columbus. The letters are in the original Spanish and in English translation.