Title: Investigaciones historicas sobre los principales descubrimientos de los Espanoles en el mar oceano en el siglo XV y principios del XVI: en respuesta aa la memoria de Mr. Otto sobre el verdadero descubridor de America.

Author: Cristobal Cladera

Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana

Description:

Based on Joseph Sabin’s famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500–1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.

Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.

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SourceLibrary: Huntington Library

DocumentID: SABCP04281000

CollectionID: CTRG03-B252

PublicationDate: 17940101

SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin’s Dictionary of books relating to America

Notes: Opposing the theory of Behaim’s discovery of America; a reply to ‘A letter from Mr. Otto to Dr. Franklin, with a Memoir on the discovery of America’ (English and French) in the Transactions of the Amer. Philosophical Soc., 1786, v. 2, p. 261-284. –NUC, pre-1956, v. 110, p. 350. Noticia del Caballero Martin Behem, celebre navegante portugues del siglo XV, con la desscription de su globo terrestre, por Mr. De Mur: traducida del Aleman. –P. 173-218. A translation from C.G. Von Murr’s Dilpomatische Geschichte des portugiesischen beruhmten Ritters Martin Behaims (Nurnberg: Johann Eberhard, 1788) Map entitled: Pars globi terrestris, Anno 1492. A Martino Behaim, equite lusitano. Norimbergae confecti; delineavit Christoph. Theoph. de Murr, 1778.

Collation: [18], xxxiv, 218 p., [6] leaves of plates (one fold.): 1 map, 5 ports.; 22 cm