Bibliotheca americana vetustissima: A description of works relating to America published between the years 1492 and 1551 ...Geo. P. Philes, publisher, MDCCCLXVI., 1866 - 519 страница |
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Страница 220 - Spaniards," prepared to break open the tomb which held the ashes of Cortes, and to scatter them to the winds! The authorities declined to interfere on the occasion ; but the friends of the family, as is commonly reported, entered the vault by night, and secretly removing the relics, prevented the commission of a sacrilege which must have left a stain, not easy to be effaced, on the scutcheon of the fair city of Mexico.
Страница 51 - Portuguese at the end of the fifteenth or beginning of the sixteenth century. It is without date, but was probably printed at Augsburg, or Nuremberg, between the years 1497 and 1504. It is believed to be unique. A facsimile of this earliest known xylographic leaf respecting America is given in Steven' "American Bibliographer,
Страница iii - De là vient que, par une prérogative particulière, non seulement chacun des hommes s'avance de jour en jour dans les sciences, mais que tous les hommes ensemble y font un continuel progrès à mesure que l'univers vieillit, parce que la même chose arrive dans la succession des hommes que dans les âges différents d'un particulier. De sorte que toute la suite des hommes, pendant le cours de tant de siècles, doit être considérée...
Страница 377 - The/ Whole/ Booke of Psalmes/ Faithfully/ Translated into English/ Metre./ Whereunto is prefixed a discourse de-/claring not only the lawfullnes, but also/ the necessity of the Heavenly Ordinance/ of singing Scripture Psalmes in/ the Churches of/ God./ Coll.
Страница 352 - Oxen.) became to the mathematicians and geographers of the century following the re-discovery by Columbus an inexhaustible source of commentaries, some of which certainly contain references to the oceanic discoveries, attributed, especially by the Italian commentators to Vespuccius.
Страница 38 - Behaim is so closely connected with the controversies, which sprung up towards the end of the last century regarding the real discoverer of the Western World and the Straits of Magellan, that it explains, if it does not authorize, the insertion of Schedel's Chronicles in our work.
Страница 94 - But for this little work the Western Hemisphere might have been called • The Land of the Holy Cross...
Страница 65 - After a diligent study of all the original documents, we feel constrained to say that there is not a particle of evidence, direct or indirect, implicating Americus Vespucius in an attempt to foist his name on this continent.
Страница 438 - I. 142, is, perhaps, only a typographical error, instead of 1544, as the author says, in his dedication of 1544, that he had been for two years before occupied with this work.
Страница 6 - February ifth, off the island of St. Mary, Columbus wrote two official accounts of his voyage, one of which was addressed to Raphael or Gabriel Sanchez or Sanxis, the Crown Treasurer. No copy, either in print or in manuscript, of the Spanish original has yet been found, but the discovery made a few years ago, in the Ambrosian library, of a printed copy of the letter addressed to Luiz de Santangel (No. 7), warrants the belief that not only it may have been printed, but that it is not irretrievably...