[38] An error traced to the proof-reader, it is said in Sabin’s Bibliog. of Bibliog., p. lxxiv.
[39] Stevens noticed this defence by reiterating his charges in a note in his Bibliotheca Historica, 1870, no. 860.
[40] Vol. IV. p. 366.
[41] Sabin, Bibliography of Bibliographies, p. lxxv.
[42] Grandeur et décadence de la Colombine, Paris, 1885.
[43] J. J. Cooke Catalogue, no. 2,214; Griswold Catalogue, nos. 730, 731. The editions were fifty copies on large paper, two hundred on small. It may be worth record that Gowan, a publisher in New York, was the earliest (1846) to instigate a taste for large paper copies among American collectors, by printing in that style Furman’s edition of Denton’s Description of New York, after the manner of the English purveyors to book-fancying.
[44] See Proceedings of the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society, Philadelphia, 1881, p. 28.
[45] Mr. Wilberforce Eames is the new editor. A list of the catalogues prepared by Mr. Sabin is given in his Bibliography of Bibliographies, p. cxxiv, etc.
[46] The German translation, Kritische Untersuchungen, was made by J. I. Ideler, Berlin, 1852, in 3 vols. It has an index, which the French edition lacks.
[47] Sabin, viii. 539. The edition of Paris, without date, called Histoire de la géographie du nouveau continent, is the same, with a new title and an introduction of four pages, La Cosa’s map being omitted.