Narrative and Critical History of America, Vol. 2 (of 8): Spanish Explorations and Settlements in America from the Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Century
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Narrative and Critical History of America, Vol. 2 (of 8): Spanish Explorations and Settlements in America from the Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Century
America -- Discovery and exploration; America -- History; United States -- History
There are copies in the Lenox, Carter-Brown, and Huth (_Catalogue_, i.
336) libraries; in the Grenville (_Bibl. Gren._, p. 158) and King’s
Collections in the British Museum; in the Royal Library at Munich;
in the Collection of the Duc d’Aumale at Twickenham; and in the
Commercial Library at Hamburg.[177] The copy cited by Harrisse was
sold in the Court Collection (no. 72) at Paris in 1884.
II. _Epistola Christofori Colom, impressit Rome, Eucharius Argenteus_
[Silber], _anno dñi MCCCCXCIII_. Small quarto, three printed leaves,
gothic type, 40 lines to the page. Addressed to Sanches. Cosco is
called Leander. Ferdinand and Isabella both named.
Major, who makes this the second edition, says that its deviations
from No. I. are all on the side of ignorance. Varnhagen calls it the
_editio princeps_. Bartlett (_Carter-Brown Catalogue_, no. 6) puts it
second. Lenox (_Scyllacius_, p. xlv) calls it the fourth edition. It
is no. 3 of Harrisse (_Bibl. Amer. Vet._, no. 3; _Notes on Columbus_,
p. 121). Graesse errs in saying the words “Indie supra Gangem” are
omitted in the title.
There are copies in the Lenox, Carter-Brown, Huth (_Catalogue_, i.
336), and Grenville (_Bibl. Gren._, p. 158) Libraries. It has been
recently priced at 5,000 francs. Cf. _Murphy Catalogue_, 629.
III. _Epistola Christofori Colom._ Small quarto, four leaves, 34
lines, gothic type. Addressed to Sanxis. Cosco is called Aliander.
Ferdinand only named.
This is Major’s third edition. It is the _editio princeps_ of
Harrisse, who presumes it to be printed by Stephanus Plannck at Rome
(_Notes on Columbus_, p. 117; _Bibl. Amer. Vet._, vol. i.); and he
enters upon a close examination to establish its priority. It is
Lenox’s second edition (_Scyllacius_, p. xliii). Bartlett places it
third.
There are copies in the Barlow (formerly the Aspinwall copy) Library
in New York; in the General Collection and Grenville Library of the
British Museum; and in the Royal Library at Munich. In 1875 Mr. S.
L. M. Barlow printed (50 copies) a fac-simile of his copy, with a
Preface, in which he joins in considering this the first edition with
Harrisse, who (_Notes on Columbus_, p. 101) gives a careful reprint of
it.
IV. _De insulis inventis_, etc. Small octavo, ten leaves, 26 and 27
lines, gothic type. The leaf before the title has the Spanish arms on
the recto. There are eight woodcuts, one of which is a repetition.
Addressed to Sanxis. Cosco is called Aliender. Ferdinand only named.
The words “Indie supra Gangem” are omitted in the title.
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