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The continent of America : its discovery and its baptism : an essay on the nomenclature of the old continents : a critical and bibliographical inquiry into the naming of America and into the growth of the cosmography of the new world, together with an attempt to establish the landfall of Columbus on Watling Island, and the subsequent discoveries and explorations on the main land by Americus Vespucius
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- Creator
- by John Boyd Thacher
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : William Evarts Benjamin, 1896
- [New York] : DeVinne Press
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- xvii, 270 pages, 28 unnumbered leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 37 cm
- OCLC
- ocm04289668
- "Limited to two hundred and fifty copies on American antique paper, and thirty-one on laid paper for presentation purposes. Each copy is numbered and signed by the publisher"--P. ii.
- Includes index.
- Thacher, II, p. 50 (Americana)
- Cosmography -- The discovery of the New World -- The life of Vespucius -- The first voyage of Vespucius -- The baptismal font of America -- The "Cosmographiae introductio" -- Scientific geography -- The chartography of the New World