The great age of discovery

Author(s)

• Newton, A. P.

Bibliographic Information

The great age of discovery

edited by Arthur Percival Newton

（The literature of discovery, exploration & geography, 6）（Burt Franklin research & source works series, 563）

Burt Franklin, 1970

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Reprint. Originally published 1932

"with eight collotype and twenty-three other plates" -- T.p.

Contents of Works

• the transition from the medieval to the modern age / by Arthur Percival Newton
• Spanish civilisation in the great age of discovery / by Antonio Pastor
• Vasco da Gama and the way to the Indies / by Edger Prestage
• Christopher Columbus and his first voyage / by Arthur Percival Newton
• Asia or mundus novus? / by Arthur Percival Newton
• The first explorers of the North American coast / by H. P. Biggar
• The search for a western passage / by H. J. Wood
• The first circumnavigation / James A. Williamson
• The northern passages / by E. G. R. Taylor

Details

• NCID: BA71808330
• LCCN: 76132685
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 230 p., [30] leaves of plates
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : E101
  • DC : 910.9
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Discoveries in geography
  • LCSH : America -- Discovery and exploration
  • LCSH : Spain -- History -- Ferdinand and Isabella, 1479-1516
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA11732569
  • BA00608579