=1509.= When Alexander Barclay put Sebastian Brant’s _Ship of Fools_ into English verse and published it in folio in London, he disclosed one of the earliest references to the Spanish discoveries which the English people could have read. This book is very rare; a copy brought £120 at the Perkins sale in London in 1873,—_Carter-Brown Catalogue_, p. 245. This edition has of late been reprinted in England, edited by Jamieson. =1511.=(?) A book _Of the newe Lādes_, printed about this time at Antwerp, but in English, is thought to have been the earliest original treatise in the English tongue which makes any mention of America. The New World is supposed to be meant by “Armenica.” Harrisse, however, assigns 1522 as its date,—_Bibl. Amer. Vet._ p. 196. There is a copy in the British Museum. =1519=, though put by some as early as 1510. _A new Interlude of the iiij. Elements._ This has been already described in Mr. Deane’s chapter. =1517.= Wynkyn de Worde printed Watson’s English prose translation of Brant’s _Ship of Fools_. A half century and more slipped away without the English press taking heed, except in such chance notices as these, of what was so closely engaging the attention of the rest of Europe. But in =1553= appeared the earliest book produced in England chiefly devoted to the American discoveries, and this was Richard Eden’s _Treatyse of the newe India_, which he had translated from the Latin of the fifth book of Sebastian Munster’s _Cosmographia_, pp. 1099 to 1113. See _Carter-Brown Cat._ p. 171, and further in the chapter on the Cabots. Munster was one of the most popular cosmographers of his day. He had begun his work in 1532 by supplying a map by Apianus to Gyrnæus’s _Novus Orbis_ of that date, which was not very creditable, being much behind the times; and he made amends by trying to give the latest information in an issue of Ptolemy, which he edited in 1540, to which he supplied a woodcut map that did service in a variety of publications for nearly all the rest of the century. It was one of the earliest maps, in which interstices were left in the block for the insertion of type for the names, and in this way it was made to accompany both German and Latin texts. It was also used in Sylvanus’s Ptolemy, the names being in red. Kohl, _Disc. of Maine_, p. 296; _Harvard Coll. Lib. Bull._ i. 270.