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![Vesputius in Lisbona.| Under this is a printer’s mark wood-engraved white on black, bearing the double cross accompanied by the letters 8.D. G.L. N.L. and a monogram of MI. Below the woodcut and on each side of it rs a letter- press colophon to be read thus: Vrbs Deodate tuo clarescens nomine presul | Qua Vogesi montis sunt iuga pressit opus | Pressit, & ipsa eadé Christo moniméta fauéte | Tempora venturo cetera multa premet. | Finitii . inj. kl. Septé | bris Anno supra ses | quimillesimii. vi. Zhe reverse of fol. 54 blank. 7 Small 4to. a large and sound copy, hf. bd. with the bookplate of George Wilbraham St. Dié in Lorrainé, 1507 Cotuation: A, B, Cin sixes (the so-called Mappemonde forming the two inner leaves of C) and D in four leaves; ain eight; band ¢ in fours; d in eight; e and f in fours. The date—29 August 1507—shows that this is the second issue (the first having appeared on April 25) of the famous book which invented the word ‘‘ America” and stamped it on the New World for all time. The Gymnasium of St. Dié was a collegiate institution, which started a press for itself in 1507. The combination of letters in the mark above mentioned, represent: S.D., St. Die; GL, Gauthier Lud; M 1], Martinus Ilacomilus (Hylacomylus = Waltze- miiller). These two men, and Nicolas Lud (N L), were members of the Gymnasium. Hylacomylus was the author of the above book, and he added to it the four Voyages of Vespucci, translated into Latin from a French version of the Italian original. On the back of the globe, which has been called a Mappemonde, there is a statement in 15 lines}on the subject of the proposed terrestrial globe and flat world-map which it was intended to produce. On the reverse of leaf Biii it is said that the greatest part of the still unknown land lately discovered by Americus Vespucius ts inhabit- able. On the obverse of Ci, the fourth part of the world, which since Americus discovered zt, may be called Amerige (as it were the land of Americus) or America, is tn the siath climate. On the back of C 5 we find it said: Now however those parts are more widely investigated, and another quarter has been discovered by Americus Vespucius (as will be heard in the sequel) and I do not see how any one can lawfully forbid that it should be named, after its sagacious and ingenious discoverer, Amerige (as wt were Americo’s land) or America. In the verses of Ringmann (Philesius) on the back of the second A 1, the geographical name Amerige is added by the side of the lines referring to Spanish and Portuguese discovery. ductio: cum quibusdam Geome- | trie ac Astronomie princi |.pijs ad eam rem | necessarijs. | Insuper quattuor Americi Ve | spucij nauiga- tiones |. . . On the reverse: Maximiliano Cesari | Augusto. Philesius | Vogesigena. |. . Fol. 2a: Anteloquium | Diuo Maximiliano | Cesari Augusto Martinus | Ilacomilus .. Fol. 14b, under a diagram of a sphere: Hacten9 exequuti capita pposita, h’ ipsas expaciatio | nes sequéter introducam? Vesputij, singulo& facto¥ exiti circa | institut tradentes. FF inisintroductionis. oll. 15-16 are wnited as one leaf, on the front of which is the diagram of a Globe (the so-called Mappemonde), and on the reverse fourteen lines of letterpress beginning: Propositu est hoc libello quand& Cosmographiae | introductioné scribere : qua nos tam in solido q3 plano depinximus .. Fol. 17a: Quattuor Americi 115 0 0](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30857867_0046.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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