1st Edition

Select Letters of Christopher Columbus, with other Original Documents, relating to his Four Voyages to the New World

Edited By R.H. Major Copyright 2010
    340 Pages
    by Hakluyt Society

    This volume brings together, translated and edited by R.H. Major, five letters by Columbus describing his first, third, and fourth voyages; another by Dr Chanca, physician, descriptive of the second voyage; and an extract from the will of Diego Mendez, one of Columbus's officers on the fourth voyage. Includes Spanish texts at the foot of the page. Two copies of this edition were printed in vellum and one presented to the British Museum. For a second edition see First Series 43; for a third edition see Second Series 65 and 70. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1847.

    Preface, Introduction, La Lettera, First Voyage of Columbus, Second Voyage of Columbus, Third Voyage of Columbus, Fourth Voyage of Columbus, Index

    Biography

    R.H. Major