Based on
Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin
Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials
and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to
the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of
discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S.
Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and
abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an up-close
perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival
of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th
century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of
over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the
Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious
beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the
time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres,
sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps,
legislation, literature and more. Now for the first time, these
high-quality digital scans of original works are available via
print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students,
independent scholars, and readers of all ages.
The below data was
compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record
of this title.This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to
insure edition identification:
- SourceLibrary: Huntington
Library
- DocumentID: SABCP03669000
- CollectionID:
CTRG01-B2217
- PublicationDate: 18310101
- SourceBibCitation: Selected
Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America
- Notes:
Collation: 323 p., [1] leaf of plates: port.; 18 cm
