Christopher Columbus: Documents and Proofs of his Genoese Origin. English-German Edition. = Christoph Columbus: Dokumente und Beweise seiner Genueser Herkunft. Deutsch-Englische Ausgabe.
Folio (40 x 30.5 cm). xxiii, 288 pp., three color plates, eight black-and-white plates, in-text figures, and 170 tipped-in document facsimiles; leaves age-toned, with occasional light foxing, especially on preliminary leaves. Bound in publisher's cloth, lettered in brown with title and Genoese coat of arms, colored cartographic endpapers; board edges also age toned, pen ink mark (approx. 10.3 cm) on center of front board; lacking publisher's dust jacket. Generally very good overall.
First edition of the bilingual English-German version (following the Italian edition of 1931). Commissioned directly by the City of Genoa under the direction of a special scholarly commission to present an incontrovertible archival defense of Columbus's Genoese identity and ancestry. The work remains an essential visual and textual repository of primary sources related to the early life and family of the explorer.
Price: $400.00