Sales catalogues: Quaritch

Date:: May 1899

Reference:: WA/HMM/CM/Sal/17/52

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$286 COLUMBUS. First LETTER ANNOUNCING THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA, in Spanish. Senor por que se que aureis plazer . . sm. folio, a facsimile reprint of the unique original in 2 leaves small folio with an English translation and preface ; hf. morocco (1493) 1891 237 —-—— the same, reissued in a reduced facsimile with translation, preface, and notes, sm. 4to. sd. 1893 _ The unique original, printed in Barcelona in 1493 in 2 leaves folio, is now in the Lenox library. — Lettera in lingua Spagnuola .. a'Luis de Santangel . . ripro- dotta a fac-simile .. per cura di Gerolamo d’Adda, dall’ unico esemplare . . nella Biblioteca Ambrosiana, 4to. 4 leaves of facsimile and XXXII pp. of introduction and notes | Milano, 1866 This was reproduced from a unique second edition printed in 4 leaves 4to. no one knows where, but perhaps in Naples, or Rome. It is now in the Ambrosian library. 288 Firsr Lerrer, of 1493: a facsimile of the Ambrosian 4to. produced by means of types fabricated in imitation of those in the original. [S|enor por que se que aureis plazer de la grand | victoria . . sm. 4to. 4: leaves [Rome or Naples, 1493] Italy, about 1892 Only 5 copies were printed of this typographical forgery. The intention was evidently to reproduce exactly the Ambrosian 4to., but the forgers were unable in several instances to make the text run line for line. Although the breadth of the lines is greater by the size of an “m,” than that of the lines in the original several devices had to be practised so as to secure complete conformity at the beginnings and endings. One point may be noted for the guidance of others. In the Vymaon the last page, the original has the words ‘‘ marauilla del miido ” while in the forgery this phrase appears by oversight as “ merauilla del mudo ” (me in the first word being an Italianisation, and the stroke omitted over w in the third word which indicated mundo instead of mudo). There were two other distinct forgeries of the same Epistle, in which perhaps the same mistake may not have been made. 290 ———— Primera Epistola del Almirante . . dando cuenta de su gran descubrimiento a D. Gabriel Sanchez . . Acompafia al texto original castellano el de la traduccion latina . . de 1493, y precede la noticia . . por el editor D. Genaro H. de Volafan [7.e. Varnhagen], 8vo. sd. Valencia, 1858 Privately printed from a MS. of the sixteenth century which may not have been derived from the printed folio (of Barcelona 1493) now in the Lenox library. This remains therefore a work of some intrinsic value. It contains an introduction, the two texts, notes and variants. Carta de Cristobal Colon enviado de Lisboa 4 Barcelona en Marzo de 1493. Nueva edicion critica .. por el Seudonimo de Valencia [7.e. Varnhagen], 12mo. bds. Viena, 1869 . 292 ———— the same, green morocco eatra, wncut edges ib. 1869 Privately printed ; in Spanish only. It was an attempt to construct a critical text from the Ambrosian edition, the Valencia MS. and the Latin version. 239 291 — — Fist Letter, 7x Latin. Epistola Christofori Colom : cul etas nostra multii debet: de Insulis Indie supra Gan- gem nuper inuetis . . small 4to. 4 leaves, 33 lines per full page ; purple morocco with a lining of crimson morocco (Rome, Stephan Planck, May 1493) 294 ———— the same, reproduced in facsimile, with a bibliographical intro- duction, sm. 4to. sd. 1893 295 ———— the same text, photolithograph of an edition printed at Paris about 1493 (Archbishop Laud’s copy in the Bodleian), with an intro- ductory note by HE. W. B. Nicholson, sm. 4to. sd. Oxford, about 1895 —— Select Letters, translated and edited by Major, 1847, and 1860— see Hax.uyt Society Journal during his first Voyage, 1893—se2 Haxiuyt Society ar NZ NEST aed ® Oa = al ee Pile 319 0 ii eR | QO i?) s\6 we$

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