CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS: HIS LIFE, HIS WORK, HIS REMAINS AS REVEALED BY ORIGINAL PRINTED AND MANUSCRIPT RECORDS TOGETHER WITH AN ESSAY ON PETER MARTYR OF ANGHERA AND BARTOLOME DE LAS CASAS, THE FIRST HISTORIANS OF AMERICA (3 VOLUMES COMPLETE)
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons / Knickerbocker Press, 1903/1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Three matching volumes: Quarto, 11.5 in. x 8 in., Volume I: pp. x, 670; Volume II: pp. 699; Volume III: pp. 775. Illustrated with tissue-guarded frontispieces (Volume II in color) and numerous drawings, pictures, charts and maps. Quarter vellum over light blue cloth boards with gilt rule and Coat of Arms to fronts; gilt title and Coat of Arms to spines. Gilt top-edge; untrimmed fore- and bottom-edges. Light soiling to boards; tanning to spines. Red and black ink to title page and some pages within. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper of Volume I only. Otherwise, volumes are unmarked. Front hinge of Volume I and rear hinge of Volume II just started. Handsome, well-cared-for set. Very Good. Item #100308
John Boyd Thacher (1847 – 1909) was a businessman and politician from Albany, New York. The son of a former mayor of Albany, Thacher served in the New York State Senate from 1884 to 1885 and was mayor of Albany from 1886 to 1888 and again from 1896 to 1897. Thacher was also a historian who specialized in the early history of the Americas and the United States.
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