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Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America. From a manuscript recently discovered in Spain. Translated from the Spanish

Christopher Columbus · 1827 · Scanned text

70,850 words · about 4 h 58 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Licence: PDM · British Library Digitised Books dataset db14 (doi 10.21250/db14) marks the OCR texts CC Public Domain Mark 1.0 (c. 1510-c. 1900 publications); text+metadata JSONL release doi 10.23636/r7w6-zy15 is CC0 1.0. Public Domain Mark is a status label, not a new copyright licence. · Digitised by the British Library (with Microsoft). Text: British Library Digitised Books, CC Public Domain Mark 1.0.

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About this book

Author
Christopher Columbus
Language
English
Published
1827
Length
70,850 words · about 4 h 58 min
Sections
3 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public Domain Mark 1.0

 

Contents (3)
  1. Front matter about 1 min
  2. Preface about 4 h 45 min
  3. Appendix about 12 min

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Front matter

PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF THE FIRST VOYAGE OF COLUMBUS TO AMERICA. FROM A MANUSCRIPT RECENTLY DISCOVERED IN SPAIN JEranslateti from thc Spanish. BOSTON : PUBLISHED BY THOMAS B. WAIT AND SON, AND SOLD BY WAIT, GREENE AND CO. BOSTON; G. AND C. CARVILL, NEVV-YORK, AND CAREY AND LEA, PHILADELPHIA. 1327. DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT : District Clkf.k's Office. Be it Remembered, that on the twenty-ninth day of June, A. D. 1827, in the fifty-first year of the Independence of the United States of America, Samvel Kettei.l, of the said District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right wliereol he claims as Proprietor, n the words following to wit : "Personal Nnrrativeof lhe First Voyage of Columbus to America, From a Manuscript, recently discovered in Spain. Translated from the Spanish."

In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, en titled, " An act for the encouragement of learning, liy securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, (luring the times therein mentioned ;" and also (o an act en titled, " An act, supplementary to an act, entitled, an act for the en couragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned ; and extending the benefits theieof to the arts of designing, engraving aud etching historical .md other prints." JOHN W. DAVlS,\Cle:k,f'hePi^et ' ( of Massachusetts. TRANSLATORS

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