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I. Bibliographic and Reference Works

Bedini, Silvio, ed. The Christopher Columbus Encyclopedia, 2 vols. (1992). Now available as a one volume paperback.

Buisseret, David. Oxford Companion to World Exploration, 2 vols.

Fernandez-Armesto, F. The Times Atlas of World Exploration (1991).

Howgego, Raymond John. Encyclopedia of Exploration to 1800. Potts Point, New South Wales: Hordern House, 2003.

Nebenzahl, Kenneth. Atlas of Columbus and the Great Discoveries, (1990).

Nowell, Charles E. "The Columbus Question: A Survey of Recent Literature and Present Opinions." American Historical Review 44 (1939): 802-22.

Provost, Foster. Columbus: An Annotated Guide to the Scholarship on His Life and Writings, 1750-1988. Detroit, MI: Omnigraphics, 1990.

Provost, Foster, Columbus Dictionary, Detroit, MI: Omnigraphics, 1990.

Sanchez, Jospeh P. Bibliografia Colombiana 1492-1990: Books, Articles and Other Publications on the Life and Times of Christopher Columbus. Albequerque, NM: National Park Service, 1990. SUDOC Number: I 29.82:C71.

Torodash, Martin. "Columbus Historiography since 1939." Hispanic American Historical Review 46 (no. 6, 1966): 409-28.
 

II. Repertorium Columbianum

Lockhart, James, ed. and trans. We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico. (Volume I of the Repertorium Columbianum) Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Nader, Helen, ed. and trans. The Book of Privileges Issued to Christopher Columbus by King Fernando and Queen Isabel 1492-1502. (Volume II of the Repertorium Columbianum) Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.

Rusconi, Roberto, ed. and Blair Sullivan, trans. The Book of Prophecies, Edited by Christopher Columbus. (Volume III of the Repertorium Columbianum), Turnhout, Belgium: Berpols, 1997.

Dotson, John, ed. and trans. Christopher Columbus and his Family: The Genoese and Ligurian Documents. (Volume IV of the Repertorium Columbianum), Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1998.

Eatough, Geoffrey, ed., Selections from Peter Martyr. (Volume V of Repertorium Columbianum), Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1998.

Lardicci, Francesca, ed. et al. A Synoptic Edition of the Log of Columbus’s First Voyage. (Volume VI of the Repertorium Columbianum), Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1999.

Griffin, Nigel, ed. and trans. Las Casas on Columbus: Background and the Second and Fourth Voyages. (Volume VII of the Repertorium Columbianum), Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1999.

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Symcox, Geoffrey, ed. Italian Reports on America, 1493-1522: Letters, Dispatches, and Papal Bulls. (Volume X of the Repertorium Columbianum), Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2001.

Symcox, Geoffrey, ed. Las Casas on Columbus: The Third Voyage. (Volume XI of the Repertorium Columbianum), Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2001.

Symcox, Geoffrey, ed. et al. Italian Reports on America, 1493-1552: Accounts by Contemporary Observers. (Volume XII of the Repertorium Columbianum), Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2002.

Luzzana, Ilaria Caraci. The History of the Life and Deeds of the Admiral Don Christopher Columbus: Attributed to His Son Fernando Colon. (Volume XIII of the Repertorium Columbianum), Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2004.
 

III. Nuova Raccolta Colombiana

Ferro, Gaetano. The Genoese Cartographic Tradition and Christopher Columbus. (Volume XII of the Nuova Raccolta Columbiana), Rome: Instituto Poligrafico e Zecca Dello Stato Libreria Dello Stato, 1996.
 

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