[138] Newe unbekanthe landte (Nuremberg, 1508), by Ruchamer; copies are in the Lenox, Carter-Brown, Congress, and Cincinnati Public libraries. Cf. Sabin, vol. xii. no. 50,056; Carter-Brown, vol. i. no. 36; Harrisse, no. 57; Murphy, no. 2,613; Sobolewski, no. 4,069; D’Avezac, Waltzemüller, p. 83; Rosenthal, Catalogue (1884), no. 67, at 1,000 marks.
[139] Nye unbekande Lande (1508), in Platt-Deutsch, by Henning Ghetel, of Lubeck, following the German. Sabin, vol. xii. no. 50,057; Harrisse, Additions, no. 29. The Carter-Brown copy (Catalogue, vol. i. no. 37) cost about 1,000 marks at the Sobolewski (no. 4,070) sale, when it was described as an “édition absolument inconnu jusqu’au présent.” Mr. C. H. Kalbfleisch has since secured a copy at 3,000 marks,—probably the copy advertised “as the second copy known,” by Albert Cohn, of Berlin, in 1881, in his Katalog, vol. cxxxix. no. 27. Cf. Studi biografici e bibliografici della Società Italiana, i. 219.
[140] Itinerariū Portugallēsiū e Lusitania in Indiā (Milan, 1508), a Latin version by Archangelus Madrinanus, of Milan. Cf. D’Avezac, Waltzemüller, p. 82; Sabin, vol. xii. no. 50,058; Harrisse, no. 58; Sobolewski, no. 4,128; Muller (1870), no. 1,844. There are copies in the Lenox, Barlow, Harvard College, Carter-Brown (Catalogue, vol. i. no. 35), and Congressional libraries. The Beckford copy (no. 1,081) brought £78. Sabin quotes Bolton Corney’s copy at £137. Copies have been recently priced at £30, £36, and £45. A copy noted in the Court Catalogue (no. 177) differs from Harrisse’s collation.
[141] Sensuyt le nouveau mōde, supposed to be 1515; some copies vary in text. The Lenox Library has two varieties. Cf. Sabin, vol. xii. nos. 50,059, 50,061; Harrisse, no. 83, and Additions, no. 46; D’Avezac, Waltzemüller, p. 84. An edition of 1516 (Le nouveau monde) is in the Carter-Brown and Lenox libraries (Sabin, vol. xii. no. 50,062; Court, no. 248; Harrisse, no. 86; Sobolewski, no. 4,129). One placed in 1521 (Sensuyt le nouveau mōde) is in Harvard College Library (Harrisse, no. 111; Sabin, vol. xii. no. 50,063). Another (Sensuyt le nouveau monde) is placed under 1528 (Sabin, vol. xii. no. 50,064; Harrisse, no. 146, and Additions, no. 87).
[142] Bibl. Amer. Vet., no. 50. Harrisse also gives a chapter to Peter Martyr in his Christophe Colomb, i. 85.
[143] See also the reference in Joannes Tritemius’ De scriptoribus ecclesiasticis (Cologne, 1546), pp. 481-482. There have been within a few years two monographs upon Martyr:(1) Hermann A. Schumacher’s Petrus Martyr, der Geschichtsschreiber des Weltmeeres (New York, 1879); (2) Dr. Heinrich Heidenheimer’s Petrus Martyr Anglerius und sein Opus epistolarum (Berlin, 1881). This last writer gives a section to his geographical studies.
[144] Humboldt, Examen critique, ii. 279; Irving, Columbus, app.; Prescott, Ferdinand and Isabella (1873), ii. 74, and Mexico, ii. 96; H. H. Bancroft, Central America, i. 312; Helps, Spanish Conquest. Cf. Harrisse, Bibl. Amer. Vet., nos. 66 and 160.
[145] Morelli’s edition of Letter of Columbus, 1810.
[146] There is an examination of this edition on page 109 of Vol. II.
[147] Harrisse, Bibl. Amer. Vet., no. 88; Carter-Brown Catalogue, vol. i. no. 50; Huth, p. 920; Brunet, i. 293; Murphy, no. 1,606; Leclerc, no. 2,647 (600 francs); Stevens, Nuggets, £10 10s.; Bibliotheca Grenvilliana. There is a copy in Charles Deane’s collection. Tross priced a copy in 1873 at 900 francs.