The Columbus papers : the Barcelona letter of 1493 : a facsimile edition of the unique copy in the New York Public Library

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The Columbus papers : the Barcelona letter of 1493 : a facsimile edition of the unique copy in the New York Public Library

introduced by Mauricio Obregón and with a new English translation by Lucia Graves ; illustrated with maps of the period and with two original etchings by Juan Antonio Roda

Albert Ferrer, in association with the New York Public Library and NYW Publishing, 1987

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Carta (Feb. 18, 1493)

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Carta (Feb. 18, 1493)

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The principal text in Columbus's Carta of Feb. 18, 1493 (written onboard ship on that date but incorrectly dated in the printed ed. used here Feb. 15, 1493) with a postscript written at Lisbon Mar. 4, 1493 (incorrectly dated in the same printed ed. Mar. 14, 1493) That text is present in a full-color facsimile of the 1493 Barcelona ed. printed by Pedro Posa, a resetting in modern type, and a translation into English

"This edition ... consists of one hundred and sixty-five copies numbered 1 to 165 and a suite of fifteen artist's proof copies numbered I to XV"--Colophon

Printed on 16 bifolia, laid loose in board covers, in a wooden box

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