Note 436 — Chapter I · (continued 3)
Reading edition
Harrisse, Cabots, p. 164. In his Notes on Columbus, p. 56, he conjectures that it sold for forty florins, if it be the same with the map of the New World which Johannes Trithemus complained in 1507 of his inability to buy for that price (Epistolæ familiares, 1536).