The continent of America
Subtitle: its discovery and its baptism : an essay on the nomenclature of the old continents : a critical and bibliographical inquiry into the naming of America and into the growth of the cosmography of the new world, together with an attempt to establish the landfall of Columbus on Watling Island, and the subsequent discoveries and explorations on the main land by Americus Vespucius
By: by John Boyd Thacher.
Contributors: John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: William Evarts Benjamin
Published: 1896
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: Vespucci, Amerigo, 1451-1512.; Columbus, Christopher -- Landfall.; Cartography.; America -- Discovery and exploration.
Notes: Thacher, II, p. 50 (Americana)
"Limited to two hundred and fifty copies on American antique paper, and thirty-one on laid paper for presentation purposes. Each copy is numbered and signed by the publisher"--P. ii.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Cosmography; title: The discovery of the New World; title: The life of Vespucius; title: The first voyage of Vespucius; title: The baptismal font of America; title: The "Cosmographiae introductio"; title: Scientific geography; title: The chartography of the New World.