Order Nr. 136114 BIBLIOTHECA AMERICANA VETUSTISSIMA, A DESCRIPTION OF WORKS RELATING TO AMERICA PUBLISHED BETWEEN THE YEARS 1492 AND 1551. ADDITIONS. TWO VOLUMES BOUND IN ONE. Henry Harrisse.

BIBLIOTHECA AMERICANA VETUSTISSIMA, A DESCRIPTION OF WORKS RELATING TO AMERICA PUBLISHED BETWEEN THE YEARS 1492 AND 1551. ADDITIONS. TWO VOLUMES BOUND IN ONE.

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  • 8vo.
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  • (iii), xl, 199 pages.

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Order Nr. 136114

Reprint of the first edition published in Paris by Librairie Tross in 1872 (Besterman p.316-317 Sheehy DB6). This volume of additions with a long preface by Harrisse was meant to add to the information he had presented in his 1866 edition. In it he describes in detail an additional 186 titles. The standard work of early works on America with exhaustive detail, annotations and valuable cross-references. A fine copy. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted.