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TitleThe discovery of North America: a critical, documentary, and historic investigation, with an essay on the early cartography of the New World, including descriptions of two hundred and fifty maps or globes, existing or lost, constructed before the year 1536 : to which are added, a chronology of one hundred voyages westward, projected, attempted, or accomplished between 1431 and 1504, biographical accounts of the three hundred pilots who first crossed the Atlantic, and a copious list of the original names of American regions, caciqueships, mountains, islands, capes, gulfs, rivers, towns, and harboursNotePhysical details: ill., maps"380 copies issued as follows: 10 copies issued on Whatman paper (for private distribution by the author); 10 copies on Japanese paper; 40 copies on Dutch hand-made paper; 320 copies on English-toned paper"--P. [ii].Includes indexes.Dimensions29 cm.Extentxii, 802 p., 23 leaves of plates (some folded)Provision ActivityPublication: England 1892 Publication: London: Henry Stevens and SonPublication: Paris: H. Welter; 1892 Responsibility Statementby Henry Harrisse