Epistola de insulis de noui repertis
Publisher: John Harris
Published: 1820
Place of publication: London
Language: lat
Translated from: spa
Subjects: Discovery and exploration; Italian; Spanish
Other titles: Epistola de insulis de novi repertis.
Work titles: Carta (Feb. 18, 1493)
Notes: Author's name and translator's name, Leandro di Cosco, appear in caption title on page [3].

Below title reads: Impressa Parisius in ca[m]po gaillardi.

Translation of: Senor por que se que aureis plazer de la grand vitoria, Barcelona, 1493.

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke supplies the place of place of publication as Paris, the name of the printer as Guy Marchant, and the date of publication as after 29 Apr. 1493.

Pen and ink facsimile done by John Harris who was active in London and began making pen and ink facsimiles of damaged leaves for cistomers like the British Museum, or entire facsilimies such as this Columbus letter. He was active beginning in 1820 until he was severely capacitated by a stroke in 1850. His son, also named John, carried on his father's work.

Signatures: a⁴.

Below the title and place of publication is the woodcut printer's device of the Buiot Marchant; on verso of title page is a woodcut illustration below the epigram.

See: Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 7175b.

See: Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 1:20.

See: European Americana, 493/10.

Pen and ink facsimile.

Purchase; 1851; 02489.