Toscanelli and Columbus. The letter and chart of Toscanelli on the route to the Indies by way of the west, sent in 1474 to the Portuguese Fernam Martins, and later on to Christopher Columbus; a critical study on the authenticity and value of the documents and the sources of the cosmographical ideas of Columbus, followed by the various texts of the letter, with translations, annotatiions, several facsimiles and also a map by Henry Vignaud ...
Publication details: London Sands & co 1902Description: 2 preliminary leaves, vii-xix, 365, [1] pages folded, map, 2 folded, facsimile, folded, table, folded, transcript 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 973.15, Vig
- 170397 Charm
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French edition published in 1901 under title: La lettre et la carte de Toscanelli.
"The English edition of this work ... differs in may respects from the French edition. Several new chapters have been added, and important alterations and amplifications made." Pref, p. viii
"Sources of information: Bibliography": pages 9-20, 171-177
170397 Charm
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