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Published by Bernard Quaritch Ltd, 2006
ISBN 10: 0955085225ISBN 13: 9780955085222
Seller: Chris Barmby MBE. C & A. J. Barmby, Kent, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. li, 33pp. 4pp colour facsimile of original pages. As new condition with as new unclipped dj.
Published by Quaritch, 2006
ISBN 10: 0955085225ISBN 13: 9780955085222
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 4to , i-xxxi, 33 pp, 9 plates, facsimile of the original letter of 1493. Introduction by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto and essays by Martin Davies and Anthony Payne and Katherine Spears. A near fine copy in a similar dust wrapper.
Published by Bernard Quaritch Ltd, 2006
ISBN 10: 0955085225ISBN 13: 9780955085222
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Tall quarto [10x14 inches]. black cloth. li,33 pages. Facsimile edition limited to 500 copies. Edited by Anthony Payne. In addition to the facsimile letter, this includes an introduction by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto and essays by Martin Davies on Pere Posa and the printing of the Spanish Columbus Letter at Barcelona in 1493 and by Anthony Payne and Katherine Spears on Quaritch, the Spanish Columbus Letter, and America 1890-1892. Fine copy in a fine dust jacket in a mylar protector.
Published by Bernard Quaritch Ltd, 2006
ISBN 10: 0955085225ISBN 13: 9780955085222
Seller: Prior Books Ltd, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Publisher's hardback in very good condition: firm, square and tight with no snags or splits, just a trifle rubbed. Complete with original dustjacket: in decent shape, just slightly rubbed and moderately edge-worn now protected in a clear, removable sleeve. Contents sound and clean; no pen-marks. Not from a library so no such stamps or labels. Thus a tidy book in presentable condition.
Published by London : Quaritch, 2006
ISBN 10: 0955085225ISBN 13: 9780955085222
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Book
Facsimile Edition. Very good cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; li, [4], 2-33 p. : facsims. ; 36 cm. Subjects; Columbus, Christopher Correspondence. Explorers America Correspondence. Explorers Spain Correspondence. 1 Kg.
Published by Bernard Quaritch Ltd, 2006
ISBN 10: 0955085225ISBN 13: 9780955085222
Seller: D&D Galleries - ABAA, Somerville, NJ, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardbound, with the DJ, VG/VG.
Published by Bernard Quaritch, London, 2006
ISBN 10: 0955085225ISBN 13: 9780955085222
Seller: BOOKHOME SYDNEY, Annandale Sydney, NSW, Australia
Book
Facsimile ed. Hardback elephant folio, dustjacket, very good plus condition (in very good plus dustjacket), full-page colour photos centre spread, copy 1. Heavy (1.0 Kg), and extra postage may be requested to destinations outside Australia. 33 pp. Subtitle: With an Introduction by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto and essays by Martin Davies on Pere Posa, the printing of the Spanish Columbus Letter at Barcelona in 1493, Anthony Payne and Katherine Spears on Quaritch, the Spanish Columbus Letter and America 1890 - 1892. Edited by Anthony Payne. Includes a colour facsimile of the original letter in the centre pages. The Columbus Letter that London bookseller Bernard Quaritch bought in 1890 was the most valuable item of printed Americana to ever appear on the market. No other copy of this, the earliest edition - a folio printed in Spanish at Barcelona in 1493 - is known. Quaritch and his assistant Michael Kerney originally published The Spanish Letter of Columbus in 1981 (now reprinted), being the first authoritative study of the document. But, as Felipe Fernandez-Armesto recounts in his introduction (new to this reprint), it nearly got dismissed as a forgery, in era of many forgeries. Quaritch's Letter did contain some errors, mostly the result of assumptions common at the time or deficiencies of knowledge unremedied until later. It demonstrated, correctly, that the folio in question was printed at Barcelona in 1493 and that all other known editions of the Columbus Letter followed it. This was a service to his firm and to the Lenox Library (now part of the New York Public Library), which purchased the item. This new edition also includes an account of the printing of the original Spanish Columbus Letter in 1493 and, drawing on materials surviving in the Quaritch Archive, the story of how Quaritch, and his son Alfred, marketed it in America. (Limited facsimile edition of 500 copies.).
Published by Bernard Quaritch, London, 2006
ISBN 10: 0955085225ISBN 13: 9780955085222
Seller: BOOKHOME SYDNEY, Annandale Sydney, NSW, Australia
Book
Facsimile ed. Hardback elephant folio, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good plus dustjacket), full-page colour photos centre spread, base spine lightly bumped, copy 2. Heavy (1.0 Kg), and extra postage may be requested to destinations outside Australia. 33 pp. Subtitle: With an Introduction by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto and essays by Martin Davies on Pere Posa, the printing of the Spanish Columbus Letter at Barcelona in 1493, Anthony Payne and Katherine Spears on Quaritch, the Spanish Columbus Letter and America 1890 - 1892. Edited by Anthony Payne. Includes a colour facsimile of the original letter in the centre pages. The Columbus Letter that London bookseller Bernard Quaritch bought in 1890 was the most valuable item of printed Americana to ever appear on the market. No other copy of this, the earliest edition - a folio printed in Spanish at Barcelona in 1493 - is known. Quaritch and his assistant Michael Kerney originally published The Spanish Letter of Columbus in 1981 (now reprinted), being the first authoritative study of the document. But, as Felipe Fernandez-Armesto recounts in his introduction (new to this reprint), it nearly got dismissed as a forgery, in era of many forgeries. Quaritch's Letter did contain some errors, mostly the result of assumptions common at the time or deficiencies of knowledge unremedied until later. It demonstrated, correctly, that the folio in question was printed at Barcelona in 1493 and that all other known editions of the Columbus Letter followed it. This was a service to his firm and to the Lenox Library (now part of the New York Public Library), which purchased the item. This new edition also includes an account of the printing of the original Spanish Columbus Letter in 1493 and, drawing on materials surviving in the Quaritch Archive, the story of how Quaritch, and his son Alfred, marketed it in America. (Limited facsimile edition of 500 copies.).
Published by London : Quaritch, 2006
ISBN 10: 0955085225ISBN 13: 9780955085222
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Book
Facsimile Edition. Very good cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; li, [4], 2-33 p. : facsims. ; 36 cm. Subjects; Columbus, Christopher Correspondence. Explorers America Correspondence. Explorers Spain Correspondence. 1 Kg.
Published by [London], Bernard Quaritch Ltd, 2006
ISBN 10: 0955085225ISBN 13: 9780955085222
Seller: Bernard Quaritch Ltd ABA ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Small folio (350 x 255 mm), pp. li, [3], 33, with 10 coloured illustrations and a reproduction of the original Columbus Letter; blue cloth, pictorial dust-jacket. First publication of this edition: limited to 500 copies. Over the centuries, booksellers have contributed much to the elucidation and sometimes to the falsification of historical documents. The story of the first printed account of the New World, usually known as Christopher Columbus's Letter to Santángel or simply the Columbus Letter, illustrates both themes. The version of it which the London bookseller Bernard Quaritch bought in 1890 and sold in 1892 was and is, by common acclaim, the most valuable item of printed Americana ever to have appeared on the market. No other copy of this, the earliest edition, a folio printed in Spanish at Barcelona in 1493, is known. Samuel Eliot Morison, the enormously influential scholar who long occupied the chair of American history at Harvard, called it 'the single most important document on the discovery of America'. Quaritch and his able assistant, Michael Kerney, were responsible for an enduring contribution to scholarship, producing in the Spanish Letter of Columbus republished here in an edition limited to 500 copies the first authoritative study of the document. But, as Felipe Fernández-Armesto recounts in his Introduction, it nearly got dismissed as a forgery. Quaritch's Spanish Letter of Columbus, appearing in the thick of contention and in the midst of forgeries, was therefore more than just the usual bookseller's publicity material. It was an important piece of scholarly claim-staking on behalf of a genuine text against unwarranted assertions. Despite some errors most of which were the result of assumptions common at the time or deficiencies of knowledge unremedied until later Quaritch's Spanish Letter of Columbus did its job effectively. It demonstrated, correctly, that the folio in question was printed at Barcelona in 1493 and that all other known editions of the Columbus Letter followed it. This was a service to his firm and to the Lenox Library (now part of the New York Public Library), which purchased the item and to the whole world of learning, which has been able, ever since, to return with confidence to a precious and intriguing text: the first piece of printing to reveal to the Old World the existence of the New. Besides Felipe Fernández-Armesto's extensive Introduction, this new edition of Bernard Quaritch's Spanish Letter of Columbus includes an account of the printing of the original Spanish Columbus Letter in 1493 and the story of how Quaritch, and his son, Alfred, marketed it in America. Felipe Fernández-Armesto is Prince of Asturias Professor in the Department of History at Tufts University and a Professorial Fellow of Queen Mary, University of London. Martin Davies was formerly Head of Incunabula at the British Library. Edited by Anthony Payne.
Published by London, Quaritch, 2006., 2006
ISBN 10: 0955085225ISBN 13: 9780955085222
Seller: Richard C. Ramer Old and Rare Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Book
Folio ( 35.8 x 26.2 cm.), publisher's dark blue cloth with gilt-stamped spine and dust jacket. Title page in red & black. As new. li pp., (1 l.), 33 pp. One of 500 copies. *** Second edition, LIMITED to 500 copies, of a work first published in 1891, with much new material added.***.