Note 133 — Part II. THE EARLY DESCRIPTIONS OF AMERICA AND COLLECTIVE ACCOUNTS OF THE EARLY VOYAGES THERETO.
Reading edition
Harrisse, Bibl. Amer. Vet., no. 55; D’Avezac, Waltzemüller, p. 80; Wieser, Magalhâes-Strasse, pp. 15, 17. There are copies in the Lenox, Carter-Brown, Harvard College, and Cincinnati Public libraries. The Beckford copy brought, in 1882, £78. Quaritch offered a copy in 1883 for £45. At the Potier sale, in 1870 (no. 1,791), a copy brought 2,015 francs; the same had brought 389 francs in 1844 at the Nodier sale. Livres payés en vente publique 1,000 francs et au dessus, 1877, p. 77. Cf. also Court, no. 263.