The discovery of North America
Subtitle: a critical, documentary, and historic investigation, with an essay on the early cartography of the New World, including descriptions of two hundred and fifty maps or globes, existing or lost, constructed before the year 1536...
By: by Henry Harrisse.
Series: CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series -- no. 06774
Publisher: H. Stevens; H. Welter
Published: 1980
Place of publication: London; Paris
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 458
Subjects: Explorers.; Names, Geographical -- North America.; America -- Discovery and exploration.; America -- Discovery and exploration -- Maps; America -- Maps -- History.; America -- Maps -- Bibliography.
Genres: Maps
Notes: Other title information:  To which are added a chronology of one hundred voyages westward, projected, attempted, or accomplished between 1431 and 1504 ; biographical accounts of the three hundred pilots who first crossed the Atlantic, and a copious list of the original names of American regions, caciqueships, mountains, islands, capes, gulfs, rivers, towns and harbours.

"380 copies issued as follows:  10 copies on Whatman paper (for private distribution by the author) ; 10 copies on Japanese paper ; 40 copies on Dutch hand-made paper ; 320 copies on English toned paper.  Copy No. 25--Dutch".

Includes indexes.

Includes bibliographical references.

Filmed from a copy of the original publication held by the Library of the Public Archives of Canada. Ottawa : Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions, 1981.