Apr 14, 2015 - Sale 2380

Sale 2380 - Lot 292

Price Realized: $ 975
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Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(COLUMBUS, CHRISTOPHER.) Pamphlets and manuscript notes from the collection of Columbus scholar Henry Harrisse. 9 volumes, various sizes, in 19th-century bindings, generally minor wear; each extra-illustrated with additional notes, letters, and pamphlets; all signed by Harrisse on the front pastedowns, 1887 and undated. Vp, 1885-89 and undated
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Henry Harrisse (1829-1910) was a French-born Columbus scholar and bibliographer who came young to the United States, taught history and practiced law, and then returned to France. He is best known for his 1866 Bibliotheca Americana Vetustissima: A Description of Works Relating to America Published between the Years 1492 and 1551. The manuscript volumes in this lot include 1887 notes on Tommaso Belloro's 1821 Notizie della Famiglia di Cristoforo Colombo Notes from the 1602 book Annotationes Julii Salinerii Notes from Gheltof's Lettera Inedita di Cristoforo Colombo, 1880 Notes on Belloro's 1839 Revista Critical and "Memoria de la Orden que llevaba Colon en su Libreria."
Pamphlets include: Genala. Il Palazzo di San Giorgio in Genova. Firenze, 1889 Programma dei Testiggiamenti proposti dalla Commissione Ordinatrice . . . la Celebrazione del IV Centenario della Scoperta dell'America. Genova, 1887 Staglieno. Sulla casa abitata da Domenico Colombo in Genova. 1887. Genova, 1885 Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für erdkunde zu Berlin. Berlin, 1885.