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Excerpt from A Catalogue of Books Relating to North and South America in the Library of the Late John Carter Brown, of Providence, R. I, Vol. 1: 1482 1601
Facsimiles have been given of some of the early maps relating to the New World; also, of title-pages of rare books, printer's devices, and portraits of distinguished navigators and writers upon the geogre phy and early history of this continent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
