The letter of Columbus on the discovery of the New World /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Columbus, Christopher
Corporate Authors:	USC Fine Arts Press, Harold Berliner's Typefoundry (Nevada City, Calif.), Peterson Engraving
Other Authors:	Nunis, Doyce B. (Doyce Blackman), 1924-2011, Ritcheson, Charles R., Morison, Samuel Eliot, 1887-1976, Sipe, Lynn, Price, Robin (Glenna Robin), Rötzscher, Klaus-Ullrich S.
Format:	Book
Language:	English Latin
Published:	Los Angeles : USC Fine Arts Press, 1989.
Subjects:	Columbus, Christopher > Correspondence. Columbus, Christopher. America > Discovery and exploration > Spanish. America > Early accounts to 1600. Explorers > America > Correspondence. Explorers > Spain > Correspondence. Private presses > California. Discovery and exploration, Spanish. Explorers. America. California. Spain. Bibliography. Early works. Records and correspondence. Private press books (Publishing) > California > Los Angeles.

Description
Item Description:	Title vignette. Includes facsim. reproduction of the Stephen Plannck 1493 Latin edition of the Letter, with English translation by Samuel Eliot Morison. The edition consists of twenty-six copies lettered from A through Z and 300 numbered copies. Designed and produced under the direction of Gerald Lange at the USC Fine Arts Press ; hand printed by Robin Price ; type cast by Harold Berliner's Typefoundry ; bound by Klaus-Ulrch S. Rötzscher ; photoengravings produced at Peterson Engraving Company. The Cushing Library/Lowman/Book Design copy is number136.
Physical Description:	48 pages, 4 unnumbered pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 25 cm
Awards:	Western Books Exhibit 1990. Carl Hertzog Prize for Fine Book Design (1st), 1990, for Gerald Lange, book designer.
Production Credits:	Designed by Gerald Lange.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 46-48).
ISBN:	0944585019 9780944585016
Related Items:	The Cushing Library/Lowman/Book Design copy forms part of the Book Design Section of the Al Lowman Printing Arts Collection and Research Archive.