Christopher Columbus: Epistola de insulis nuper in mari Indico repertis. [Basel: Johann Bergmann] 1494.
Also contains Carolus Verardus: Historia Baetica.
Inc. Haun. 4093 4º

Title page with a dedication to the King (Ferdinand of Spain)

The first pages of the text	Fols. ee1v-ee2r: Woodcut of Columbus who arrives at the “Indian” islands

Shortly after his first journey to America Columbus wrote an account of it in Spanish in 1493. It was soon translated into Latin and was published several times in the 1490’s. This edition from Basel contains various woodcuts. It appears that Columbus himself thought that he had discovered some islands in the “Indian Sea”, obviously not a new continent.

20.3 x 15 cm.

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