The discovery of North America : 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; 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.
The discovery of North America : 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; 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.
By
:
Harrisse, Henry.
Publication Date
:
1961
Publication Information
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Amsterdam, Ne. : N. Israel,
Physical Description
:
802 p. : maps.
Subject Term
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Cartography.
Geographic Term
:
America -- Discovery and exploration.
North America -- History.
Newfoundland and Labrador -- Discovery and exploration.
Newfoundland and Labrador -- History -- To 1713.
Language
:
English
ISBN
:
[n/a]
| Library | Collection | Collection | Call Number | Status |
|---|
| St. John's - A.C. Hunter (SJH) | Adult NFic NL Ref - Vault | Adult Non-Fiction NL Reference - Vault | 970.01 H24 | NonCirculating |