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    <title>Letters from a new world</title>
    <subTitle>Amerigo Vespucci's Discovery of America</subTitle>
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    <namePart>Columbus, Christopher.</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Formisano, Luciano.</namePart>
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    <dateIssued>c1992</dateIssued>
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    <extent>xli, 214 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill., maps, port., facsims. ; 22 cm.</extent>
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  <note type="statement of responsibility">edited and with an introduction by Luciano Formisano ; foreword by Garry Wills ; translated by David Jacobson.</note>
  <note>Translation of: Mundus novus.</note>
  <note>Appendix includes other texts including a letter of Christopher Columbus and excerpts from Las Casas's History of the Indies.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-203) and index.</note>
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      <namePart>Vespucio, Américo - 1454-1512</namePart>
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