The life and voyages of Americus Vespucius
Subtitle: with illustrations concerning the navigator, and the discovery of the New World
By: by C. Edwards Lester, assisted by Andrew Foster.
Contributors: Foster, Andrew.; Canovai, Stanislao, 1740-1811.; Vespucci, Amerigo, 1451-1512.; Toscanelli, Paolo del Pozzo, 1397-1482.; Polo, Marco, 1254-1323?
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: H. Mansfield
Published: 1853
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 431
Subjects: Vespucci, Amerigo, 1451-1512.; Gama, Vasco da, 1469-1524.; Polo, Marco, 1254-1323?; Ojeda, Alonso de, ca. 1466-1515.; Cosa, Juan de la, d. 1510.; Vespucci family.; Discoveries in geography.; America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Biography [including Vespucci's letters of his four voyages].; title: pt. 2. Illustrations. [1] [Canovai, D.] Eulogium of Americus Vespucius .; title: 2. A narrative addressed to Lorenzo di Pier-Francesco de' Medici; giving an account of the voyage and discoveries of Vasco de Gama beyond the Cape of Good Hope, the authorship of which, has been attributed to Americus Vespucius.; title: 3. Letters of Paolo Toscanelli to Columbus.; title: 4. Marco Polo and his travels.; title: 5. Fellow-voyagers of Americus: Alonzo de Ojeda and Juan de la Cosa [abridged mainly from Irving's Lives of the companions of Columbus].; title: 6. Documents relating to Americus Vespucius, presented in the collection of Navarréte.; title: 7. Letter of M. Ranke to M. de Humboldt, respecting the correspondence of Americus with Soderini and de' Medici.; title: 8. The Vespucci family.