The continent of America.
Subtitle: Its discovery and its baptism. An essay on the nomenclature of the old continents. A critical and bibliographical inquiry into the naming of America and into the growth of the cosmography of the new world; together with an attempt to establish the landfall of Colombus on Watling Island, and the subsequent discoveries and explorations on the main land by Americus Vespucius.
Publisher: Meridan
Published: 1971
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
Subjects: Vespucci, Amerigo, 1451-1512.; Columbus, Christopher -- Landfall.; Cartography.; America -- Discovery and exploration.
Description: xvi, 270 p. with illus. 31 cm
Notes: Reprint of the New York, 1896 ed.