INSTRUCTIONS TO BINDER.
Richard Henry Major translation
Portrait of S. Christopher to face Title.
Herrera’s map and Bahama Islands, modern, opposite each other, between pp. lx and lxi; the first at top, the second at bottom, both reading the same way.
Juan de la Cosa’s map to face page lxiii.
SELECT LETTERS OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, WITH OTHER ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS, RELATING TO HIS FOUR VOYAGES TO THE NEW WORLD.
TRANSLATED AND EDITED BY R. H. MAJOR, F.S.A., etc., KEEPER OF THE DEPARTMENT OF MAPS AND CHARTS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM, AND HON. SEC. OF THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.
Second Edition.
“Tu spiegherai, Colombo, a un novo polo Lontane sì le fortunate antenne, Ch’ a pena seguirà con gli occhi il volo La Fama ch’ ha mille occhi e mille penne. Canti ella Alcide e Bacco, e di te solo Basti a’ posteri tuoi ch’alquanto accenne; Chè quel poco darà lunga memoria Di poema dignissima e d’ istoria.” Tasso.—Gerusalemme Liberata. Canto xv, 32.
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