Richard Henry Major
# Richard Henry Major

Richard Henry Major (3 de octubre de 1818 - 25 de junio de 1891) fue un bibliotecario geógrafo y comisario de mapas de la colección del Museo Británico a partir de 1844 hasta su jubilación en 1880. Durante ese tiempo publicó una serie de libros relacionados con algunos mapas y otros documentos de importancia histórica. Desde 1849 hasta 1858, fue el Secretario de la Hakluyt Society Reconocido a nivel internacional por sus trabajos en el ámbito de la geografía, la cartografía histórica.

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* Notes upon Russia: Being a Translation of the earliest Account of that Country, entitled Rerum Muscoviticarum commentarii, by the Baron Sigismund von Herberstein
* Early voyages to Terra Australia, now called Australia
* Further Facts Relating To The Early Discovery Of Australia With Supplementary Observations On The Same Subject
* The Discovery Of Australia By The Portuguese In 1601
* Memoir on a mappemonde by Leonardo da Vinci, being the earliest map hitherto known containing the name of America
* The life of prince Henry of Portugal surnamed the navigator and its results: Comprising the discovery, within one century, of half the world. With new facts in the discovery of the Atlantic Islands. A refutation of French claims to priority in discovery. Portuguese Knowledge (subsequently lost) of the Nile lakes; and the history of the naming of America.
* 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
* 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
