Munster’s _Cosmographia_, to which he transferred this map, was first published in German, according to Harrisse, _Bibl. Amer. Vet._, no. 258, quoting the _Labanoff Catalogue_, in 1541, and again in 1544, with a new map. After this there were two German (1545 and 1550) and one Latin (1550) edition, each published at Basle, and a French edition (1552), all of which are generally noted, besides Eden’s version of 1552 (owned by Mr. Brevoort); cf. _Carter-Brown Catalogue_, 1865, p. 27, and an earlier one (1543), cited in Poggendorff’s _Biog.-lit. Handwörterbuch_, ii. 234, which is not so generally recognized, if indeed it exists at all. The statement is, however, enough to indicate that Eden thus made a popular book the medium of his first presentation to the English public. [Illustration: TITLE OF EDEN’S MUNSTER. The cut is taken from the _Carter-Brown Catalogue_. The Colophon reads: “Thus endeth this fyfth boke of Sebastian Munster, of the lādes of Asia the greater, and of the newefounde landes, and Ilandes. 1553.”] =1555.= Richard Eden, who to his book-learning added the results of converse with sailors, next published his _Decades of the Newe Worlde, or West India_, derived in large part, as shown in Mr. Deane’s chapter, from the Latin of Peter Martyr. This made to the English public the first really collective presentation of the results of the maritime enterprise of that time. (H. Stevens, _Bibl. Hist._ 1870, no. 632; Field, _Indian Bibliog._ no. 484; _Carter-Brown Catalogue_, p. 184, with fac-simile of title.) Among the supplemental matters was a “Description of the two Viages made out of England into Guinea,” in 1553-54, which were the earliest English voyages ever printed. This 1555 edition, which fifty years ago was worth in good copies six guineas (Rich’s _Catalogue_, 1832, no. 30), will now bring about £25. The Editor has used the Harvard College and Mr. Charles Deane’s copies. There was sold in the Brinley sale, no. 40, the 1533 edition of Peter Martyr, which was the copy used by Eden in making this translation, and it is enriched with his little marginal maps and annotations. See Sabin’s _Dictionary_, i. 201, where it is said Bellero’s map, measuring 5 × 6½ inches, is found in some copies. The Lenox copy has a larger map, 10½ × 7 inches, with a similar title. =1559.= “A perticular Description of suche partes of America as are by travaile founde out,” made the last chapter of a heavy folio, _The Cosmographicalle Glasse_, which appeared in London, the work of a young man, William Cunningham, twenty-eight years old, a doctor in physics and astronomy. See _Carter-Brown Catalogue_, p. 214, where a fac-simile of the author’s portrait as it appeared in the book is given.