De insulis nuper inventis
Subtitle: The letter of Christopher Columbus announcing the discovery of the New World. A fac-simile of the earliest edition with illustrations
By: reproduced for John S. Kennedy ...
Publisher: Priv. print.
Published: 1890
Place of publication: New York
Language: lat
Number of pages: 20
Other titles: Letter of Christopher Columbus announcing the discovery of the New World.
Notes: Caption title: De Insulis inuentis. / Epistola Cristoferi Colom (cui etas nostra / multũ debet: de Insulis in mari Indico nup / inuẽtis. Ad quas perquirendas octauo antea / mens: auspicijs et ere Inuictissimi Fernandi / Hispaniarum Regis missus fuerat) ad Mag- / nificum dũm Raphaelez Sanxis: eiusdẽ sere- / nissimi Regis Thesaurariũ missa. quam nobi / lis ac litterat' vir Aliander & Cosco: ab His- / pano ydeomate in latinũ conuertit: tercio kl's / Maij. M.ccc.xciij. Pontificatus Alexandri / Sexti Anno Primo.

Black letter.

Facsimile of the Latin version printed at Basel(?) by Bergmann de Olpe(?) 1493, "the earliest edition known with pictorial illustrations"; made from the copy in the Lenox library.

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