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Americana vetustissima : fifty books, manuscripts, & maps relating to America from the first fifty years after its discovery (1493-1542) : in celebration of the Columbus quincentenary
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- New York : H.P. Kraus, 1990
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- 138, [4] pages, [3] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 32 cm
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- "Appendix: A small group of books relating to the New World, but published after 1542": p. 126-138.
- "400 copies printed at the press of A. Colish. Designed by Jerry Kelly and Kit Currie. Text by David Brafman, Kit Currie, Roland Folter and Joshua Lipton."--Colophon.
- Price list and sample documents inserted.
- Catalog item 9: Waldseemüller, Martin. Globe Gores, [St. Dié, 1507], "The earliest map to use the name 'America, ' one of only two copies known"--Page 30-31 with reproduction of single woodcut of 12 gores for a globe inserted.
- Catalog item 10: Waldseemüller, Martin. Cosmographiae Introductio cum quibusdam Geometriae ac Astronomiae Principiis ad eam Rem necessariis. Insuper quattuor Americi Vespucii navigationes. Universalis Chosmographiae descriptio tam in solido q[uam] plano, eis etiam insertis quae Ptholom[a]eo ignota a nuperis reperta sunt. (Second title): Quattuor Americi Vesputti Navigationes, St. Dié, [Vautrin & Nicolas Lud], 29 August 1507, "The book which gave America its name"--Page 32-33.