[503] It is reprinted in Varnhagen, Amerigo Vespucci, p. 78. The manuscript is not in Vespucius’ hand (Bulletin de la Société de Géographie de Paris, April, 1858). Varnhagen is not satisfied of its genuineness.
[504] Cf. Humboldt, Examen critique, v. 1, 34; Major, Prince Henry, p. 375; Navarrete, iii. 46, 262; Ramusio, i. 139; Grynæus, p. 122; Galvano, p. 98. Santarem, in his iconoclastic spirit, will not allow that Vespucius went on this voyage, or on that with Coelho in 1503,—holding that the one with Ojeda and La Cosa is the only indisputable voyage which Vespucius made (Childe’s translation, p. 145), though, as Navarrete also admits, he may have been on these or other voyages in a subordinate capacity. Santarem cites Lafitau, Barros, and Osorius as ignoring any such voyage by Vespucius. Vespucius says he could still see the Great Bear constellation when at 32° south; but Humboldt points out that it is not visible beyond 26° south latitude.
[505] This was a cousin of Lorenzo the Magnificent; he was born in 1463, and died in 1503. Cf. Ranke’s letter in Humboldt’s Examen critique, and translated in Lester’s Life and Voyages of Vespucius, p. 401. Varnhagen has an “Étude bibliographique” on this 1503 letter in his Amerigo Vespucci, son caractère, etc., p. 9.
[506] Varnhagen is confident (Postface in Nouvelles recherches, p. 56) that Vespucius was aware that he had found a new continent, and thought it no longer Asia, and that the letter of Vespucius, on which Humboldt based the statement of Vespucius’ dying in the belief that only Asia had been found, is a forgery.
[507] Bibl. Amer. Vet., no. 26; D’Avezac, Waltzemüller, p. 74; Carter-Brown, i. 26; Sunderland, vol. v. no. 12,919; Brunet, vol. v. col. 1,155; Bibliotheca Grenvilliana, p. 766.
[508] Bibl. Amer. Vet., no. 31; Carter-Brown, i. 21; Ternaux, no. 6; Bibliotheca Grenvilliana, p. 766; Brunet, vol. v. col. 1,154; Huth, p. 1525. A copy was sold in the Hamilton sale (1884) for £47, and subsequently held by Quaritch at £55. The Court Catalogue (no. 369) shows a duplicate from the Munich Library. Harrassowitz, Rarissima Americana (91 in 1882), no. 1, priced a copy at 1,250 marks.
[509] Bibl. Amer. Vet., no. 22.
[510] Bibl. Amer. Vet., no. 23; Carter-Brown, i. 22; Bibliotheca Grenvilliana, p. 766; Court, no. 368; Quaritch (no. 321, title 12,489) held a copy at £100.
[511] Bibl. Amer. Vet., no. 24.
[512] Bibl. Amer. Vet., no. 25; Bibliotheca Grenvilliana, ii. 766; Huth, v. 1525.