[Rarebooks] FS: Facsimile of Columbus' 1502 "Book of Privileges" in faux medieval binding.

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(FACSIMILES) Stevens, Benjamin Franklin (comp. & ed.). CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, HIS OWN BOOK OF PRIVILEGES 1502. Photographic Facsimile of the Manuscript in the Archives of the Foreign Office in Paris, Now for the First Time Published with Expanded Text Translation Into English, and an Historical Introduction. The Transliteration and Translation by George F. Barwick. The Introduction by Henry Harrisse. London: B. F. Stevens. 1893. Folio. lxvi,276,(277)-284,(2)pp. Index. Plus approx. 138 facsimiles of manuscript leaves. Each facsimile has a facing text page with its Spanish transliteration and its English translation. Illustrated with 5 color plates (2 are coats-of-arms). Title & some text printed in red & black. Printed by the Chiswick Press on handmade deckle edge paper. Bound in a faux medieval binding of 1/2 leather over oak boards, red & black calf spine labels. With brass "anchor & chain" fore-edge clasps.                                      $450.00 (trade discount allowed)
A facsimile of the original documents between Columbus and the Court of Spain.

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