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

Author/creator Harrisse, Henry
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon : B.F. Stevens, 1895 (Chiswick Press)
Description72, [11] p., [1] leaf of plates : col. coat of arms ; 23 cm.
Supplemental ContentGale, Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500-1926
Subjects

Variant title Half title: Concerning Americus Vespuccius
SeriesSabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926
Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926.
Local noteColonization; Biography.
Local note2013AJ09200.
General noteReview of "The letters of Amerigo Vespucci, and other documents illustrative of his career. Translated, with notes and an introduction, by Clements R. Markham" (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." 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, published 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 benedictins de la Congregation de a Maur," Paris, 1724, from a manuscript, formerly in possession of Baron Guillaume de Crassier, now in the Universitätsbibliothek Giessen. Cf. B. Springer's Indienfahrt ... von F. Schultze, Strassburg 1902.
General note"Only two hundred and fifty copies are printed"--verse of half title.
General noteTitle-vignette.
General notePublisher's advertising: [11] p., 2nd count.
General noteReproduction of original from The American Antiquarian Society.
General noteSabin no. 99363.
Bibliography noteList of author's other books: p. 69-72.