Columbus, or, The discovery of America
Subtitle: as related by a father to his children, and designed for the instruction of youth : in two volumes ...
By: translated from the German of J. H. Campe ... by Elizabeth Helme ...
Contributors: Helme, Elizabeth, -1814?
Publisher: Printed by and for Sampson Low, Berwick Street, Soho; And sold by C. Law, Ave Maria Lane; E. Booker, New Bond Street; And R. and L. Peacock, Juvenile Library, No. 159, Oxford Street
Published: 1799
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Translated from: ger
Subjects: Juvenile literature; Conduct of life; Discovery and exploration
Other titles: Discovery of America.; Columbus.
Work titles: Entdeckung von Amerika. 1. Theil
Notes: Translation of v. 1 of the author's trilogy, "Die Entdeckung von Amerika," of which the 1st edition was published in Hamburg, 1780-81.

Vol. 1: xviii, 170 p,; v. 2: [2], 181, [1] p.

First edition; cf. Osborne and Gumuchian, both cited below.

Caption and running title: Columbus.

Publisher's advertisement: [1] page at end of vol. 2.

Includes translator's and author's prefaces.

Engraving: frontispiece map. Woodcut: globe ill. on p. 47.

Volume 2 has separate title-page.

Written in the form of dialogues.

Cf. Osborne Coll., p. 780.

Cf. Welch, D.A. Amer. children's books, 156.

Gumuchian, 1036