AFHfS W*^ jmmf&- .^-^^IS a: > n > 2; o o m PI 2 o > > D > •.5. .vC li T^N ■f-v .....„,,,.>.. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT LOS ANGELES ';^\\huS'^ ( EARLY MAPS OF AMERICA; AND A NOTE ON ROBERT DUDLEY AND THE ^RC^NO DEL MA-RE. 9ScaI] before ttjt ^mntcan ^nitquarfan Socirta, Gclobn* 21, 1873, By EDWARD E. HALE. "WOKCESTER, MASS.: PRINTED BY ClIABLES HAMILTON. 1874. EARLY MAPS OF AMERICA AND A NOTE ON ROBERT DUDLEY AND THE ^RC^NO DEL M:A.RE. HeaU before tlje amettcan antiquarfan Societg, ©ctobet 21, 1873, By EDWARD E. HALE. « J « ^ J J 7 e , o o o o _^J_ — , il-)-,-*-*'-) t * S-* * J "WORCESTER, MASS.: PRINTED BY C H A K 1, E S HAMILTON. 1874. • • • • • • ::• • < • • • • • • • • • • « .••.•€• •• •■•••• • « c • fl • • • • > • • • • •,• • • • • c • * A • • c EARLY MAPS IN MUNICH. BY EDWARD E. HALE. [The following Memoranda were made in Munich, June 22, 1873, — after an agreeable morning in the Koyal Library. They are not of great importance, — and probably not of interest even to geographers, ex- cepting so far as the references to the MS. maps of Robert Dudley may prove to be so. But I present them all to the Society, because they may at least save some trouble to other explorers. k. e. h.] CO ^- oc The earliest map which they showed me bears their nam- OQ ber, 183. It is easily read, on a roller, — not in very good preservation. No name, no date, t^ At J^Q'azil (South America) is this inscription, — without lo the name "Brazil," — "Ista3 terrse quae inventa sunt posi- o turn est nomen Sanctje Crucis inventa est, et in ea est max- ima copia ligni breselii etiam inventa cassia grossa ut braclii- f^ um hominis. Aves Papagagi magni ut falcones et sunt o . . ^ rubri homines, vero ubi nullam legem tenentes se invicem o § comedunt." W [The badness of the Latin is not to be charged to the copyist. "* E. E. H.] Z Q At the West Indies. "Omnes istse insulse ac terrse iu- ventae fuerunt ab uno Genuensi Nomine Columbo, et in ista insula — sunt animalia alienee natnrse — serjientes item. Inveniunt aurum in multis locis omnes ist?e insuljB nomiri- antur Antillia," 448001 NejL'f to Anicn. "Oiniics .lamiiati ad iiiorti'in de gratia esiu't-iiili ohtinent a llegc rortiiiialia' (juoil tttto tempore vitjio su:i' i)()ssiiit in hue iiisulu luil)itarc moiia. Nihil iiiven- itiir nisi radices Iicrl.a et * * * ciistodium dictus. Kex il)idL'm cHsti'uin construxit." T/ic Puradisus Te/'/'cutris is in Africa on this ma]). North i>\' the Azores and west of Seothuid u[)pears a long island, mari outside as above. "135 Icon. Geoii'." This is the Municli number. No. 1. 'i'he America has Coba, Jamaica, Isabella, San Juan I'orto Ivico, — l^it not Florida. The Spanish main is marked, "Tota terra invcnta per Christof. Colondx) Januensis de Re de Spanier." Brazil (Soutli America) is marked "Tota terra vocata Santas Crucis de lie de portngale." On Xo. in. is tlic West of Europe. Just west of Val- encia, al)out the wi(hh of Ireland from it — or rather more — is a round island, with a crooked strait divichng it, marked in i-('d, " Ja de bresile.'* Nearly half way to Terceira from this is "Isola de Mayda." West of the north ])art of Scotland, northwest of Brazile is Fixlada, half as large as li-ehind. On No. 1 the name Brazil does not aj)pear, at the South American l»razil. There are six vellum charts in all : taking in the whole w- J, ± .•j-^j A - MEN. I r^ rr-VT- Let children hear the mighty deeds Which God performed of old, Which in our younger years we saw. And which our fathers told. lie bids us make his glories known, His works of power and grace ; And we'll convey his wonders down Through every rising race. Our lips shall tell them to our sons. And they again to theirs, That generations yet unborn May teach them to their heirs. Thus shall they learn in Cjod alone Their hope securely stands. That they may ne'er forget his works. But practise his commands. (Mr. B. T,. Whkli'ley, Organist.) All are requested to remain standing while the Blessing of God is invoked by Dr. Hale. " There abides In his allotted home a genuine priest, The shepherd of his flock, — or, as a king Is styled, when most affectionately praised, The father of his people. Such is he ; And rich and poor, and young and old, rejoice Under his spiritual sway. He hath vouchsafed To me some portion of a kind regard, And something also of his inner mind Hath he imparted; but I speak of him As he is known to all." Wordsworth, " Excursion," Book V. 'JNIVtX- ' liTj- OR DR. EDWARD EVERETT HALE. TT had been expected that Dr. Edward Everett Hale would write for this maga- zine a prefatory note on the centenary of the birth of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, to ac- company what we are printing, for the sec- ond time, from Dr. Hale's pen, written at the time of the death of his friend and fel- low-townsman nearly fifteen years ago. As the Holmes centenary is approaching (Dr. Holmes was born August 29, 1809) there seemed to us nothing more fitting than to print once more a part at least of the ad- mirable sketch of Dr. Holmes' career writ- ten for us by Dr. Hale and published in this Review in November, 1894. Dr. Holmes attained the age of eighty- five. Dr. Hale, wiio was thirteen years younger, was born April 3, 1822, and was, therefore, past the age of eighty-seven when he died on June 10, in his old home at Rox- bury, which is now part of Boston. For six years past Dr. Hale had been chaplain of the United States Senate, and he was a not- able figure, through these last years of his life, at the nation's capital. His patriotism was so lofty, his faith in the whole country and its future so strong, that it was pleasant for his friends to see him in his octogenarian years honored among the country's leaders and making every circle that he entered bet- ter and happier for his presence. Although his name has so long been asso- ciated with those of the great men of letters and of reform movements of the New Eng- land school, — Emerson, Low^ell, Holmes, Longfellow, Whittier, and a dozen others, — Dr. Hale was a more truly national per- sonage, in his knowledge and sympathies, than were any of tbe other New England thinkers and leader's. His early training under his father in the office of the Boston Daily Advertiser was broadening, and he was out in the world and mingling with men at a very early age, graduating from Harvard College while only seventeen. (He was just about to observe the seventieth anniversary of his graduation in the Class of 1839.) After leaving college he got son . valiiaV.' experience as a reporter and correspo. at Washington. At the approa eightieth birthday shortly after ment from his pastorate in Bosti vear before he was made chapla... „. Senate, Dr. Hale visited Washington and was invited to luncheon at the White House. He had not been in that historic building for perhaps a year or two ; and while waiting for the President to appear he entertained the present writer with some of those delightful recollections which made his conversation always charming and noteworthy. He spoke of Washington as it was in 1840. He had been interested in the political campaign of that year, which resulted in the election of Harrison and Tyler. Happening to lift his eyes, in the room where he was waiting, to the portraits of President Tyler and Mrs. Tyler, he recalled the time when it was his custom to drop in very often in the afternoon to have a cup of tea with the lady of the White House. This was in 1841, Harrison having died a few weeks after his inauguration in March of that year. Dr. Hale's picture of the pleas- ant simplicity of life at the White House when he was a Washington correspondent, sixty-eight years ago, was as detailed and vivid as if he were portraying something that had happened the day before. But this was not the end of Dr. Hale's reminiscences of Mrs. Tyler, apropos of the portrait hanging on the wall before him. Twenty years later, In 1 861, he was attached to the personal staff of Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, of Massachusetts, in the capacity of secretary, and had charge of General But- ler's correspondence. General Butler • was on the James River in Virginia. One day he received a letter from an irate lady com- plaining that the Federal troops were milking the cows on her plantation. The lady proved to be Mrs. Tyler, widow of the former President, who had been kind to the youth- ful Hale at Washington in the early forties. Of course. Dr. Hale was glad to follow Gen- eral Butler's instructions, and not only to express regret, but to give Mrs. Tyle^ every assurance that her plantation should be un- molested. Here was a man who was doing good work as a newspaper writer and cor- 1 in our \ uiic . that he ' had at- 'n: c'jie'.ia.: . ct th>: Inetieth I'l.otoer.iph by Havis A Eickemeyei. N. V. DR. EDWARD F.VFRETT HALE. , MP. \p''il ;v iSjj; (lied. June lo, 1909.) WD P ^•^^^'? >rJci^X-JV^V: ,/-- •,^V H^^ |5i^S. \i< > ^y. ^ / C/3 \—^ PS C > o OC w < 7^ >* Pi , a O) n «« CN ^' (N ^ t^ ro . ht| \r\ o .^ PARIS Item C) :z 5j CO c >- P3 CU < ■^-l f< C ^H Pi o ^ w E Santo r l?oma<. Soatu^o f I mmoi /^ant pbilip-'' SwtmatI?!*. Stnt fimortT Judaeotbadto. Santrnitl?eo. u \maA I Hos D05e tnupboe ', t)eloeD05e/3poflolce:fccboe I po:clcartupno:^fcflbciilca ii 21&arut5la9cuciP9cnfcinlb* io p2cuuegio* TITLE-PAGE FROM JUAN DE PADILLA, LOS DOZE TRIUMPHOS DE LOS DOZE APOSTLES. "5 > n > rj C '^ 1 hJ ^ c 00 d -7 Swiss Francs 73 Bisselius, Joa., S. J. Argonauticon Americanorum, s. historiae periculorum Petri de Victoria, ac sociorum ejus II. XV. Miinchen 1647. 16 mo. With nice frontisp. (by Kilian) -^-j «■ and a full-page map of America. Old vellum. 48. — ^ / I'alau I. 230. Icrnaux, Nr. 661. Not in Sabin. Bisselius liad added a long, and learned commentary to his translation of the Jesuit -f ^T ^ 17 Pedro Govea de Victoria travels. These very interesting relations concern especially C c n- ■-^ // 1^ tral and South America, Mexico, Cuba, Jamaica, Chile, Peru, Brazil etc., and give full particulars of the customs of tlie natives, geogr. situation, cities etc. and the stories of the aiscoveries by Columbus, Almagro, Vespucci, the enterprises of the W e 1 s e r s etc., partly from earlier sources. Cood copy. Name on title. 74 Franck, S. Weltbuch : spiegel u. bildtniss des gantzen erdbodens . . . nemlich in Asiam, Aphri- cam, Europam u. Americam. Auch alter darin bcgriffner Lander eygenschafft, u. d. einwoner namen, gestalt, leben, wesen, relif^ion, glauben, . . . auch etwas von new gefunde- nen Welten u. Inseln. Tubingen, Morhard, 1534. Fol. 250 11. Vellum. 75. — Harrisse 1. 197. Steiff, p. 195, 160: ,,Die Editio princcps dcr bekannten Kosmographie Seb. Francks der ersten, wclche iiberhaupt in deutscher Sprachc geschrieben worden." On leaf 210 vo: ,,A m c r i c a das vierdt Buch diser Geographey". Cont. on 11. 210 vo. until 237 ro the disco- veries made by P. Aliaris, Chr. Columbus, Vespucci, Cortez, J. and L. Vartomannus, etc. Fine copy. 75 (Grynaeus, S. and J. Huttichius). Novus orbis regionum ac insularum veteribus incognitarum, una c. tabula cosmographica. Basle, Joh. Hervagius, 1555. Fol. Original binding of wooden boards, cov. w. calf and richly decorated w. roll-produced borders of biblical scenes sign. H. B. 1559 (cf. Haebler I. 39, 1); with title: Novus orbis and date: 1559;2 clasps. 120.— Harrisse, p. 230, 236, 296. Rare edition of tliis most interesting collection of voyages and discoveries in the New World enlarged by the relation of F e r d. Cortez "De insulis novitcr inventis" and some other relations. Witliout the map of the world wliich is wanting as in most copies. Round loith: Herold, B. J. Originum ac germanicarum uiitiquitatum libri, leges videlicet Salicae, Allemannorum, Saxonum, Angliorum, etc. Basel, Henricpetri, 1557. Exceptionally fine copy in a very interesting contemporary binding of best preservation. 76 Lerius, J. Historia navigationis in Brasiliam quae et America dicitur, qua describitur autoris navigatio, Villagagnonis in America gesta, Brasiliensium victus et mores. Ed. II. Genf, Vignon, 1 594. 8vo. W. 7full-pagewoodcutsandafoldedplaterepres. thebattle between the Tououquinambaults and Margaiats. Contemp. calf. 48.— Brunei III. 1004. Rare second Latin edition of the famous travel of Lery with the report of the exiled French calvinists under V i 1 1 a g a g n o n. Contains important details on manners and customs of the inhabitants. Fine copy with the very rare woodcut-plate. The binding and the first and last 11. si. dam. by worms. 77 Mallat, J. Les Philippines. Histoire, geographie, moeurs, agriculture, Industrie et commerce. 2 vol. de texte et Atlas. Paris 1846. in-8. et in-fol. A v. 1 carte pli^e, 2 tables et 10 pi., dont 5 en chromolith., repres. des types indigenes. Toile. 48.— Brunei VI. 28. 224. Pardo de Tavera, Bibl. Filip., p. 243, 1591. Ouvrage rare et important pour I'ethnographie des lies Philippines. L'auteur entrcprit 3 voyages pour les Philippines dont le premier cut lieu en 1838. Unc pi. oe I'atlas contient une chanson Philippine, suivie de la musique. — Qq. rouss. et taches d'eau insignif. par endroits. 78 Medina, P. L'Arte del navegar, in la qual si contengono le regole, dechiara- tioni, secreti, & avisi, alia bona navegation necessarii. Trad, de lingua Spagn. in volgar Italiano (by V. Paletino de Corzula). Venice 1554. 4 to. W. large woodcut on title, many fine woodcut diagrams & initials and a large map of the world. Old limp vellum. 300. — Palau V, 121. The first Italian edition. A most remarkable book on account of the full- page map, the left half of which shows the New World (Florida, Newfoundland, Labrador, Cuba, Jamaica, Mexico, Peru, Yucatan, etc.) The map is interesting on account of the exact delineation of the Isthmus of Panama, its original is one of the few maps printed in the Pyrenean Peninsula, before 1560. Only three Spanish maps of that period were known to Nordenskiold, including this. "This seems to be almost the whole contribution during the earliest period of printed cartographical literature from the countries, from which the New World and the South East passage to India were discovered, and from which hundreds of the most important voyages . of discovery started during that period" (Nordenskiold, F a c s. Atlas). Fine copy. On the title and last leaf a stamp has been removed. See Reproduction, page 16. -^ y V .^ / \ ^ S( I .A ■ ■ ■"' . ■^'