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, and Andrew Foster.
Contributors: Foster, Andrew, joint author.; Canovai, Stanislao, 1740-1811.; Vespucci, Amerigo, 1451-1512.; Toscanelli, Paolo del Pozzo, 1397-1482.; Polo, Marco, 1254-1323?
Publisher: H. Mansfield
Published: 1852
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-ca. 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. [I] Eulogium of Americus Vespucius [by S. Canovai]  II. 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.  III. Letters of Paolo Toscanelli to Columbus.  IV. Marco Polo and his travels.  V. Fellow-voyagers of Americus: Alonzo de Ojeda and Juan de la Cosa [abridged mainly from Irving's Lives of the companions of Columbus].  VI. Documents relating to Americus Vespucius, presented in the collection of Navarréte.  VII. Letter of M. Ranke to M. de Humboldt, respecting the correspondence of Americus with Soderini and de' Medici.  VIII. The Vespucci family.