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IRVING, WASHINGTON. A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus.

IRVING, WASHINGTON. A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus. Folding map, torn at folds with some loss and rebacked. 3 volumes. 8vo, contemporary marbled calf; foxing; early owner's signatures on front pastedowns. New York, 1828

  • Notes: first american edition, nearly contemporaneous with the 1828 London first edition. A handsome set of Irving's first major historical work. Irving took some liberties with the evidence, leading to a persistent myth that 15th-century Europeans had believed the Earth was flat. BAL 10124, Sabin 35169.
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