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Richard Henry Major (October 3, 1818 – June 25, 1891) was a geographer and map librarian who curated the map collection of the British Museum from 1844 until his retirement in 1880. (From Wikipedia) More about Richard Henry Major:
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| | Books by Richard Henry Major: ![[Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/info.gif) Major, Richard Henry, 1818-1891, ed.: The Canarian: or, Book of the Conquest and Conversion of the Canarians in the Year 1402 by Messire Jean de Bethencourt, Kt. (London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1872), by Pierre Bontier and Jean Le Verrier (multiple formats at archive.org)- Major, Richard Henry, 1818-1891: The Discoveries of Prince Henry the Navigator, and Their Results: Being the Narrative of the Discovery by Sea, Within One Century, of More Than Half the World (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1877) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Major, Richard Henry, 1818-1891: The Discoveries of Prince Henry the Navigator, and Their Results: Being the Narrative of the Discovery by Sea, Within One Century, of More Than Half the World (second edition; London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1877) (page images at HathiTrust)
Additional books by Richard Henry Major in the extended shelves:![[X-Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/infouc.gif) Major, Richard Henry, 1818-1891: The bibliography of the first letter of Christopher Columbus describing his discovery of the New world. (Ellis & White, 1872) (page images at HathiTrust)- Major, Richard Henry, 1818-1891: Book of the conquest and conversion of the Canarians (Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1872), also by Pierre Bontier and Jean Le Verrier (page images at HathiTrust)
- Major, Richard Henry, 1818-1891: The Canarian : or, Book of the conquest and conversion of the Canarians in the year 1402 (B. Franklin,), also by Pierre Bontier and Jean Le Verrier (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Major, Richard Henry, 1818-1891: Christopher Columbus : four voyages to the New World : letters and selected documents (Peter Smith ;, 1978), also by Christopher Columbus (page images at HathiTrust)
- Major, Richard Henry, 1818-1891: Descobrimento da Australia pelos Portuguezes em 1601 : cinco annos antes do mais antigo até hoje conhecido ... (Livraria Central de J. Melchiades, 1863) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Major, Richard Henry, 1818-1891: The discoveries of Prince Henry the Navigator, and their results : being the narrative of the discovery by sea, within one century, of more than half the world (S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1981) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Major, Richard Henry, 1818-1891: The discovery of Australia by the Portuguese in 1601 : five years before the earliest discovery hitherto recorded : with arguments in favour of a previous discovery by the same nation, early in the sixteenth century (Printed by J.B. Nichols, 1861) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Major, Richard Henry, 1818-1891: Early voyages to Terra Australis (Printed for the Hakluyt society, 1859) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Major, Richard Henry, 1818-1891: Early voyages to Terra Australis, now called Australia : a collection of documents, and extracts from early manuscript maps, illustrative of the history of discovery on the coasts of that vast island, from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the time of Captain Cook (Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1859) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Major, Richard Henry, 1818-1891: Early voyages to Terra Australis, now called Australia : a collection of documents and extracts from early manuscript maps, illustrative of the history of discovery on the coasts of that vast island, from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the time of captain Cook (B. Franklin,) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Major, Richard Henry, 1818-1891: Early Voyages to Terra Australis, Now Called Australia:: A Collection of Documents, and Extracts from Early Manuscript Maps, Illustrative of the History of Discovery on the Coasts of That Vast Island, from the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century to the Time of Captain Cook. (Gutenberg ebook)
- Major, Richard Henry, 1818-1891: The first letter of Christopher Columbus to the noble lord Raphael Sanchez, announcing the discovery of America : Reproduced in fac-simile from the copy of the Latin version of 1493 now in the Boston public library (Published by The Trustees, 1890), also by Christopher Columbus (page images at HathiTrust)
- Major, Richard Henry, 1818-1891: The history of the great and mighty kingdom of China and the situation thereof. (Printed for the Hakluyt society, 1853), also by Juan González de Mendoza, Robert Parke, George Thomas Staunton, and Martín Ignacio de Loyola (page images at HathiTrust)
- Major, Richard Henry, 1818-1891: History of the two Tartar conquerors of China : including the two journeys into Tartary of Father Ferdinand Verhiest, in the suite of the Emperor Kang-Hi (Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1854), also by Pierre Joseph d' Orléans, Francis Egerion Ellesmore, Thomas Percira, and Ferdinand Verbiest (page images at HathiTrust)
- Major, Richard Henry, 1818-1891: History of the two Tartar conquerors of China, including the two journeys into Tartary of Father Ferdinand Verbiest, in the suite of the Emperor Kang-Hi: from the French of Père Pierre Joseph d'Orléans ... To which is added Father Pereira's journey into Tartary in the suite of the same emperor, from the Dutch of Nicolaas Witsen. (B. Franklin, 1963), also by Pierre Joseph d' Orléans, Tomás Pereira, Francis Egerton Ellesmere, Tomás Pereira, and Ferdinand Verbiest (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Major, Richard Henry, 1818-1891: History of the two Tarter conquerors of China, including the two journeys into Tartary of Father Ferdinand Verbiest : in the suite of the Emperor Kang-Hi: from the French of Père Pierre Joseph d' Orleans (Hakluyt Society, 1854), also by Pierre Joseph d' Orléans, Francis Egerton Ellesmere, Thomas Pereira, and Ferdinand Verbiest (page images at HathiTrust)
- Major, Richard Henry, 1818-1891: History of travel into Virginia Britannia (Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1849), also by William Strachey (page images at HathiTrust)
- Major, Richard Henry, 1818-1891: India in the fifteenth century : being a collection of narratives of voyages to India, in the century preceeding the Portugese discovery of the Cape of Good Hope ; from Latin, Persian, Russian, and Italian sources, now first translated into English (Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1857), also by Hieronimo di Santo Stefano, Michal Michalovich Wielhorski-Matustkin, Afanasil Nikitin, John Winter Jones, Poggio Bracciolini, Etienne Quatremère, and 'Abd al-Razzā ̇k ibn Is'hak̇ Kamāl al-Dîn al-Samark̇andi (page images at HathiTrust)
- Major, Richard Henry, 1818-1891: India in the fifteenth century : being a collection of narratives of voyages to India, in the century preceeding the Portuguese discovery of the Cape of Good Hope (Printed for the Hakluyt society, 1857), also by Hieronimo di Santo Stefano, Michat Michatovich Weilhorski-Matustkin, Afanasiĭ Nikitich Nikitin, John Winter Jones, Poggio Bracciolini, Etienne Quatremère, and ʻAbd al-Razzāq Kamāl al-Dīn ibn Isḥāq al-Samarqandī (page images at HathiTrust)
- Major, Richard Henry, 1818-1891: India in the fifteenth century : being a collection of narratives of voyages to India in the century preceding the Portuguese discovery of the Cape of Good Hope, from Latin, Persian, Russian, and Italian sources, now first translated into English (B. Franklin, 1964), also by Hieronimo di Santo Stefano, Afansii Nikitich Nikitin, Poggio Bracciolini, and Kamāl al Din 'Abd. al-Razzāk ibn Is'hak (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Major, Richard Henry, 1818-1891: The life of Prince Henry of Portugal, surnamed the Navigator, and its results (Cass, 1868) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Major, Richard Henry, 1818-1891: The life of Prince Henry of Portugal, surnamed the Navigator, and its results: comprising the discovery, within one century, of half the world ... With ... the history of the naming of America. (A. Asher, 1868) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Major, Richard Henry, 1818-1891: The life of Prince Henry of Portugal, surnamed the Navigator, and its results; from authentic contemporary documents. (Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1877) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Major, Richard Henry, 1818-1891: Memoir on a mappemonde by Leonardo da Vinci, being the earliest map hitherto known containing the name of America : now in the royal collection at Windsor (Printed by J.B. Nichols and Sons, 1865), also by Leonardo da Vinci (page images at HathiTrust)
- Major, Richard Henry, 1818-1891: Notes upon Russia, being a translation of the earliest account of that country, entitled Rerum Moscoviticarum commentarii (B. Franklin, 1963), also by Sigmund Herberstein (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Major, Richard Henry, 1818-1891: Notes upon Russia: being a translation of the earliest account of that country, entitled Rerum moscoviticarum commentarii (Printed for the Hakluyt society, 1851), also by Sigmund Herberstein (page images at HathiTrust)
- Major, Richard Henry, 1818-1891: O descobrimento da Australia pelos portuguezes em 1601 (in Portuguese), trans. by José Maria Almeida e Araújo de Portugal Correia de Lacerda (Gutenberg ebook)
- Major, Richard Henry, 1818-1891: O descobrimento da Australia pelos portuguezes em 1601, cinco annos antes do primeiro descobrimento até então mencionado; com argumentos a favor do prévio descobrimento pela mesma nação, no principio do seculo XVI (Typographia da Academia, 1863), also by José de Lacerda (page images at HathiTrust)
- Major, Richard Henry, 1818-1891: Select letters of Christopher Columbus, with other original documents, relating to his four voyages to the New world (Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1847), also by Christopher Columbus, Diego Méndez, Diego Alvarez Chanca, and Giuliano Dati (page images at HathiTrust)
- Major, Richard Henry, 1818-1891: Select letters of Christopher Columbus, with other original documents, relating to his four voyages to the New world. (Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1870), also by Christopher Columbus, Diego Méndez, Diego Alvarez Chanca, and Giuliano Dati (page images at HathiTrust)
- Major, Richard Henry, 1818-1891: The true date of the English discovery of the American continent under John and Sebastian Cabot (s.n.], 1870) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Major, Richard Henry, 1818-1891: Vida do infante D. Henrique de Portugal, appellidado o Navegador, e seus resultados : comprehendendo o descobrimento, no espaço de um seculo, de metade do mundo ... com a historia do nome da America, conforme documentos authenticos contemporaneos (Impr. nacional, 1876), also by José Antonio Ferreira Brandâo (page images at HathiTrust)
- Major, Richard Henry, 1818-1891: The voyages of the Venetian brothers, Nicolò & Antonio Zeno, to the northern seas in the XIVth century : comprising the latest known accounts of the lost colony of Greenland and of the Northmen in America before Columbus (Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1873), also by Niccolò Zeno and Ívarr Bárðarson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Major, Richard Henry, 1818-1891: The voyages of the Venetian brothers, Nicolò & Antonio Zeno, to the northern seas, in the XIVth century, comprising the latest known accounts of the lost colony of Greenland; and of the Northmen in America befor Columbus. (Printed for the Hakluyt society, 1873), also by Niccolò Zeno and Ivarr Bárðarson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Major, Richard Henry, 1818-1891: The voyages of the Venetian brothers, Nicolò & Antonio Zeno, to the northern seas in the XIVth century, comprising the latest known accounts of the lost colony of Greenland and of the Northmen in America before Columbus. (B. Franklin, 1964), also by Niccolò Zeno and Ívarr Bárðarson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Major, Richard Henry, 1818-1891: The voyages of the Venetian brothers Zeno to the northern seas in the fourteenth century (Massachusetts Historical Society, 1875) (page images at HathiTrust)
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