Note 585 — Chapter II · (continued 2)

This Latin text of Bassin was also printed at Venice in 1537 (Bibl. Amer. Vet., Additions, no. 156; Leclerc, no. 2,517). Humboldt (Examen critique, iv. 102, 114) and others have been misled by a similarity of title in supposing that there were other editions of the Cosmographiæ introductio published at Ingoldstadt in 1529, 1532, and at Venice in 1535, 1541, 1551, and 1554. This book, however, is only an abridgment of Apian’s Cosmographia, which was originally printed at Landshut in 1524. Cf. Huth, i. 357; Leclerc, no. 156; D’Avezac, Waltzemüller, p. 124. The Bassin version of the voyages was later the basis of the accounts, either at length or abridged, or in versions in other languages, in the Paesi novamente and its translations; in the Novus orbis of 1532 (it is here given as addressed to René, King of Sicily and Jerusalem), and later, in Ramusio’s Viaggi, vol. i. (1550); in Eden’s Treatyse of the Newe India (1553); in the Historiale description de l’Afrique of Leo Africanus (1556),—cf. Carter-Brown Catalogue, i. 211, 229; in De Bry, first and second parts of the Grands voyages, and third and fourth of the Petits voyages, not to name other of the older collections; and among later ones in Bandini, Vita e lettere di Vespucci (pp. 1, 33, 46, 57), and in the Collecção de noticias para a historia e geografia das nações ultramarinas (1812), published by the Royal Academy of Lisbon. Varnhagen reprints the Latin text in his Amerigo Vespucci, p. 34.