The voyage from Lisbon to India, 1505-6 : being an account and journal

Date:

1894

Author:

Springer, Balthasar.

Collecting Area:

Rare Books

Call Number:

G 95 S76 LOCAL

Publisher:

B.F. Stevens

Physical Description:

xxvii, 55 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Custodial History:

LC has copy no 33. DLC

Notes:

Facsimile reproduction of the garbled Flemish translation of Springer's Latin account of the Almeida expedition to the East Indies (Antwerp : Jan van Doesborch, 1508) with English translation by G. F. and Mrs. G. F. Barwick interleaved. Erroneously believed by the editor to contain "the hitherto unidentified letter from Vespucci to Lorenzo di Pier Francisco de Medici which professes to give an account of the voyage from Lisbon [to India]" cf. Pref. and Harrisse, Americus Vespucius: a critical ... review of two recent English books concerning that navigator. London, 1895. LOCAL

Subjects:

Voyages and travels, Discoveries in geography Portuguese, and Voyages and travels

Genres/Forms:

Private press books (Publishing) Chiswick Press. CtHT

Names:

Almeida, Francisco de, approximately 1450-1510 and Almeida, Francisco de, approximately 1450-1510

Geographic Terms:

Africa Discovery and exploration Portuguese, East Indies Discovery and exploration Portuguese, Africa, and Asia East Indies