Note 1498 — Chapter VIII · (continued 2)

[Harrisse, Bibl. Amer. Vet., Additions, no. 109, notes, but not de visu, a plaquette enumerating the treasure sent to Spain by Pizarro in 1534. F. S. Ellis (1884, no. 235) priced at £21 a second copy of the tract mentioned by Harrisse (no. 108) as known only in a copy in a private library in New York, entitled Copey etlicher brieff so auss Hispania Kummen seindt, 1535, which purports to be translated through the French from the Spanish. Ellis pronounces it a version of Harrisse’s no. 109, the only copy known of which was, as he says, lost in a binder’s shop. Cf. the Libro ultimo de le Indie occidentale intitulato nova Castiglia, e del Conquisto del Peru, published at Rome, May, 1535 (Sunderland, vol. i. no. 265). For the effect of Peruvian gold on prices in Europe, see Brevoort’s Verrazano, p. iii.—Ed.]