The continent of America : its discovery and its baptism : an essay on the nomenclature of the old continents : a critical and bibliographical inquiry into the naming of America and into the growth of the cosmography of the new world; together with an attempt to establish the landfall of Colombus on Watling Island, and the subsequent discoveries and explorations on the main land by Americus Vespucius / by John Boyd Thacher.

Margarita philosophica nova / [Gregor Reisch].

Cosmographiae introductio cum quibusdam geometriae ac astronomiae principiis ad eam rem necessariis / [Martin Waldseemüller].

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Margarita philosophica nova / [Gregor Reisch].

Cosmographiae introductio cum quibusdam geometriae ac astronomiae principiis ad eam rem necessariis / [Martin Waldseemüller].

Cosmographiae introductio cum quibusdam geometriae ac astronomiae principiis ad eam rem necessariis / [Martin Waldseemüller].