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Contains 2 lengthy articles by Eustaquio Fernández de Navarrete on the Columbus family:a. "Noticias Para la Vida de D. Hernando Colon" (pages 289-483)b."Noticias de D. Bartolomé Colon, hermano del Almirante" (pages 485-574)574, index, [2] pages.Boards rubbed with minor scratches and loss to corners and all three edges. Marbled end-papers with small ex-libris to inner front board. Spanish text clean and unmarked.
A reference source for the life of Hernando Colon, son of Christopher Colon/Columbus, with a focus on the challenges he faced in defending his family's legacy. This volume gives some of the earliest published details of the life of Hernando supported by the inclusion of 8 transcribed documents, including Hernando's defence of his brother's (Diego's) rights to titles and income following his father's death; details relative to the conception Hernando had for his library (the "Biblioteca Hernandia"); and the text of Hernando's will.
Navarrete's second chapter to this volume concerns the life… Read More

304 pages. Unopened except from the first and last eight pages. Spanish text clean and unmarked. Very good condition.

The French historian Count Roselly de Lorgues used the example of Columbus to critique Spain and its colonial practices, whilst also emphasising Spain's poor treatment of Columbus. He was one of the writers associated with creating the so-called "Columbian Legend" or 'Spain's disgrace'. Cesáreo Fernández Duro (1830–1908) was a Spanish naval officer and leading Columbus scholar of his time who, whilst noting some of the less flattering aspects of Columbus's actions, sought to show that Spain had fully expressed its gratitude to Columbus during his lifetime, contrary to de Lorgues' assertions. For Duro, and other Spanish intellectuals who adopted a common standpoint, Columbus was a heroic if flawed figure but one rightly finding his place firmly in Spain's historical and imperial legacy. With over 80 pages of notes to support the main text, this work represents a scholarly attempt… Read More

xxxviii, [2], 319 pages (including black and white photographs of documents held in the Biblioteca Colombina). Slight rubbing to top corners of the boards. Very neat paper repairs to the bottom corners of pages ix – xxiv, not touching text. Very small blemish (remains of paper label?) to front end-paper. Spanish text clean and unmarked.Includes "the most authoritative edition of the will" of Hernando Colon/Ferdinand Columbus, son of Christopher Columbus (Edward Wilson-Lee, The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books, London, 2019, page 343). This volume was produced to coincide with the quadricentennial anniversary of the death of Hernando Colon (the volume contains 105 documents reproduced in text format and 4 in photographic facsimiles covering 66 pages.
A note to the reader explains that previous publications have contained textual errors arising from mistakes in copies obtained from the original documents held by the Biblioteca Colombina. The intention in producing this publication was to "remedy these… Read More

Text, complete in itself, is extracted from CHURCHILL, AWNSHAM, and JOHN: A Collection of Voyages and Travels (vol 2,). Printed for Awnsham and John Churchill at the Black Swan in Paternoster-Row, London, 1704.
Title-page, preface, pages numbered 559-688.
Boards with marks, spine rubbed with split to top 70mm of front joint but holding firm. Text clean and clear. Age toning and traces of humidity to page margins not touching text.

Hernando (Ferdinand) Colon was Christopher Columbus's youngest son. His life of his father was written at a time when his father's legacy was under serious challenge from many quarters, including the court of the Spanish Crown. These attempts to diminish Columbus's role as the primary discoverer of the New World also presented a threat to the fortunes and future legacy of the wider Columbus family.
Hernando is the major source of information concerning his father's life and voyages, especially his fourth voyage to the New World. He accompanied his father on his fourth… Read More

The History of the Life and Actions of Adm[iral] Christopher Columbus and of his Discovery of the West Indies Call'd the New World, Now in the Possession of his Catholic Majesty. Written by his Son D. Ferdinand Columbus.
Text, complete in itself, is extracted from Churchill, Awnsham, and John: A Collection of Voyages and Travels (vol 2), printed, by assignment from Messrs Churchill, for John Walthoe, over-against the Royal-Exchange, in Cornhill and others, London, 1732.
Folio (395 x 255 mm), title-page, preface, pages 499-628. Later, quarter bound, brown calf with marbled paper covering boards, spine with five raised bands, morocco label lettered in gilt on spine. Watermark to end-papers, "Abbey Mills Greenfield" (i.e. Abbey Mills papermill, Flintshire, Wales).
Boards lightly rubbed to extremities, corners slightly bumped. English text, with wide margins, clean and crisp. A very good attractive copy.
Hernando Colon/Ferdinand Columbus was Christopher Columbus's youngest son. His life of his father was… Read More