Martin Behaim's globe, and Humboldt's essay on the oldest maps of America : with a special notice of Juan de la Cosa's map of America : manuscript, dated in 1500, 1852.

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Martin Behaim's globe, and Humboldt's essay on the oldest maps of America : with a special notice of Juan de la Cosa's map of America : manuscript, dated in 1500, 1852.

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Translation of F.W. Ghillany's preface to his Geschichte des seefahrers Ritter Martin Behaim... (Nurnberg, 1853) and of the essay by A. von Humboldt, contained therein. In the handwriting of Brantz Mayer. Facsimiles of letter from Columbus, l504, and of signatures of the Spanish sovereigns, Ferdinand and Isabella, of Cortés and Francisco Pizarro, pasted in.

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