Title: Amerígo Vespucci. Son caractère, ses écrits (même les moins authentiques), sa vie et ses navigations, avec une carte indiquant les routes, par F. A. de Varnhagen Ministre du Bresil au Perou, Chili et Ecuador, etc.
Description: <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Folio. pp. 119, ff. 2 (plates, 1 folded). Includes facsimile, map. Half morocco, Astor Library binding. Printed wrappers bound in.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">A defense of the authenticity of the Soderini Letter, which recounts Vespucci’s ‘four voyages’, including the almost certainly imaginary ‘first voyage’ of 1497, when he allegedly set foot on the North American mainland eight days before John Cabot, and a version of his perhaps equally fanciful ‘third voyage.’ See Bib# 4102824/Fr# 299 in this collection for the first reprint of first edition of the Soderini Letter. De Varnhagen, Visconde de Porto Seguro (1816-1878) here prints the text from a newly-discovered copy, perhaps now lost: see the note in the Hoe sale catalogue, part II (1912), lot 3331. The present work is the "1.e livraison." The "2.e livraison" appeared under title: "Le premier voyage de Amérigo Vespucci définitivement expliqué dans ses détails par F.A. de Varnhagen," Vienne, 1869, with a note by the author: "[...] Le présent travail devra remplacer, soit pour les nouvelles éditions, soit pour les traductions, tout le chapitre ['Premier voyage de Vespuce'] du travail précédent, depuis la page 93 à la page 102." The "3e livraison" was published in Vienna, 1870 under title: "Nouvelles recherches sur les derniers voyages du navigateur florentin [...].”</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_2107029" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>