The Spanish Letter of Columbus . . _ A facsimile of the original edition published by Benard Quaritch in 1891. With an Introduction by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto and essays by Martin Davies on Pere Posa and the printing of the Spanish Columbus Letter at Barcelona in 1493 and by Anthony Payne & Katherine Spears of Quaritch, the Spanish Columbus Letter, and America 1890-1892. Edited by Anthony Payne.
[London], Quaritch, 2006. Hardcover. sm.folio 35x 25.5cm, li,[3], 33p., limited to 500 copies, with 10 coloured illustrations and a reproduction of the original Columbus Letter, dark blue cloth, in pictorial jacket, as new. (tr) First publication of this edition: Story of the first printed account of the New World, usually known as Christopher Columbus's Letter to Santangel or simply the Columbus Letter. - The version of it which the London bookseller Bemard Quaritch bought in 1890 and sold in 1892 was and is, by common acclaim, the most valuable item of printed Americana ever to have appeared on the market. No other copy of this, the earliest edition, a folio printed in Spanish at Barcelona in 1493, is known. For the 1493 Barcelona edition, see Printing & the mind of man 35. / Dust Jacket Included. Item #36308
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