Columbus, Epistola de insulis novis inventis, [facsimile of the 1493 Rome edition], green crushed morocco

COLUMBUS, CHRISTOPHER. Epistola de insulis nuper inventis. [anonymous facsimile reprint of the Rome, Plannck, after April 29, 1493 edition]

FACSIMILE OF THE SECOND PRINTING OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS' LETTER DETAILING HIS FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF THE AMERICAS.

Columbus returned to Spain from his first voyage to the Americas in March 1493. His letter to Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain was first published in Spanish in Barcelona in April of the same year (known only by the New York Public Library copy). The Latin edition, translated by Leander de Cosco from a different Spanish manuscript version and published shortly after the Barcelona edition, was responsible for spreading the news to the rest of Europe, given the international scope of the language. Plannck’s first printing of this Latin translation (“Plannck I”; Goff-757) only names Ferdinand of Aragon in the title paragraph; this is the edition found in facsimile here. The second printing (“Plannck II”; Goff-758) addresses both Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castille.