| | Book | Requires cookie* | | 1 | Title: | The general history of the vast continent and islands of America: commonly call'd the West-Indies, from the first discovery thereof: with the best accounts the people could give of their antiquities
| | | | Alt. Title: | Historia general de los hechos de los castellanos. English. Selections
| | | | Creator: | Herrera y Tordesillas, Antonio de, d. 1625 | | | | | Stevens, John, d. 1726 | | | | Publication: | Printed for J. Batley, London,1725-26. | | | | Notes: | Title in red and black. An abridged and inaccurate translation of the first three decades of Herrera's "Historia general de los hechos de los castellanos", divided into six decades, neither chapters nor decades corresponding with the original. cf. Stevens, H. Bibliotheca historica, p. xiii; Winsor, v.2, p. 68 and p. 563; Prescott, W.H. Conquest of Mexico, book III, chap. IX, notes. | | | | Call #: | E143 H565 Vault | | | | Extent: | 6 v. fronts. (v. 1, 4-6; ports.) fold. plates., 3 fold. maps. 20 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Spanish America -- History | America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish | America -- Early accounts to 1600 | Imprints, Early English To 1750
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 2 | Title: | Writings of Christopher Columbus: descriptive of the discovery and occupation of the new world
| | | | Creator: | Columbus, Christopher. | | | | | Ford, Paul Leicester, 1865-1902 | | | | Publication: | C.L. Webster & Co, New York,1892. | | | | Notes: | First edition. Frontispiece: Columbus "AFTER A SUPPOSED PORTRAIT BY B.V. LA GRABO." [? i.e. apocryphal portrait, from an engraving signed B.V. lo grabo] Original in the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla. cf. Berthelot, Bull. de la Soc. de gâeogr. 3. sâer. t. 2, p. 303-305, and A. Neri, Ritratti di C. Colombo in Racc., di doc. Comm. colomb., pte. II, v. 3, p. 268, tav. XXIV. | | | | Call #: | E114 F711 | | | | Extent: | 255 p. incl. front. (port.) 19 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Columbus, Christopher -- Correspondence | Explorers -- America -- Correspondence | Explorers -- Spain -- Correspondence | America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish | America -- Early accounts to 1600
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 3 | Title: | The journey of Alvar Nuänez Cabeza de Vaca and his companions from Florida to the Pacific, 1528-1536
| | | | Creator: | Nâuänez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, 16th cent | | | | | Nizza, Marco da, ca. 1510-1570 | | | | | Mendoza, Antonio de, 1492?-1552 | | | | | Bandelier, Fanny R.Mrs | | | | | Bandelier, Adolph Francis Alphonse, 1840-1914 | | | | Publication: | Allerton Book Co, New York,1922. | | | | Notes: | Also published by A.S. Barnes & Co., New York, 1905, in the series called The trail makers. | | | | Call #: | E125 N9N8 | | | | Extent: | xxii p., 1 Á., 230 p., 1 Á. incl. 2 facsim. front. (fold. map) 19 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Narvâaez, Pâanfilo de, -- d. 1528 | Indians of North America | America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish | America -- Early accounts to 1600
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