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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[227] Bibl. Amer. Vet., no. 35.

[228] See Vol. III. pp. 16, 199; Bibl. Amer. Vet., pp. 464, 518; and Additions, no. 38.

[229] In the section “inventio novarum insularum,” Bibl. Amer. Vet., Additions, no. 39.

[230] Brunet, iv. 915; Bibl. Amer. Vet., Additions, no. 44.

[231] Harrisse, Notes on Columbus, p. 57; Bibl. Amer. Vet., no. 73. There is a copy in the Boston Athenæum.

[232] Carter-Brown, no. 48; Murphy, no. 32.

[233] Bibl. Amer. Vet., no. 75.

[234] Cf. bibliographical note on Columbus in Charton’s Voyageurs, iii. 190.

[235] Historical Collections, vol. i. no. 1,554; Bibl. Hist. (1870), no. 1,661; J. J. Cooke, no. 2,092; Murphy, no. 2,042 (bought by Cornell University); Panzer, vii. 63; Graesse, v. 469; Brunet, iv. 919; Rosenthal (1884); Baer, Incunabeln (1884), no. 116. Cf. Harrisse, Notes on Columbus, p. 74, for the note and translation; and other versions in Historical Magazine, December, 1862, and in the Christian Examiner, September, 1858. Also, see Bibl. Amer. Vet., no. 88, for a full account; and the reduced fac-simile of title in Carter-Brown, vol. i. no. 51. The book is not very rare, though becoming so, since, as the French sale-catalogues say, referring to the note, “Cette particularité fait de ce livre un objet de haute curiosité pour les collectionneurs Américains.” Harrisse says of it: “Although prohibited, confiscated, and otherwise ill-treated by the Court of Rome and the city authorities of Genoa, this work is frequently met with,—owing, perhaps, to the fact that two thousand copies were printed, of which only five hundred found purchasers, while the fifty on vellum were distributed among the sovereigns of Europe and Asia.” (Cf. Van Praet, Catalogue des livres sur vélin, i. 8.) Its price is, however, increasing. Forty years ago Rich priced it at eighteen shillings. Recent quotations put it, in London and Paris, at £7, 100 marks, and 110 francs. The Editor has used the copy in the Harvard College Library, and in the Boston Public Library,—which last belonged to George Ticknor, who had used George Livermore’s copy before he himself possessed the book. Ticknor’s Spanish Literature, i. 188; Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., x. 431.

[236] Bibl. Amer. Vet., no. 220; Stevens, Historical Collections, vol. i. no. 242. There is a copy in Harvard College Library.