45658X1 Reprint of the 1892 first edition first published by Henry Stevens and Sons in London and H. Welter in Paris. Distributed for Martino Publishing, Mansfield Centre by Oak Knoll Press, New Castle: 2006. 814 pages. Hardcover. Brand new book. 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 Hundred 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. 2006 8vo. cloth. xii, 802 pages, 23 leaves of plates (some folded : ill., maps A standard work on the early discovery of North America. "The book is a monument of industry and research, and every scholar must feel a kind of personal obligation to its authorÉ Part First deals with the voyages, from that of John Cabot in 1497 to that of Estevan Gomez in 1524-1525. In part two Mr. Harrisse describes the early cartography, the maps of Seville and St. Die, the Portuguese Charts and the Lusitano-Germanic maps, of which he distinguishes five types. Part three presents a catalogue of the oldest maps of America; Part four, a chronology of voyages from 1431 to 1504; and part five, biographies of pilots and cartographers for the period 1492-1550." - Hurlbut, Journal of the American Geographical Society of New York. Vol. 24 (1892, pp. 565-578. $125.00USD
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