Geography (Geographicae Enarrationis Libri Octo)

repeated from the 1513 edition, on which one reads in large characters, in the middle of South America, these words: >This land with the adjacent islands was discovered by [Christopher] Columbus of Genoa by the command of the King of Castile.< The description of the same map is limited to a brief account of the first voyage of Columbus in which only the islands were discovered"

After this map follow several other modern maps, not numbered, but with appropriate letter-press descriptions. These are followed by a second map representing also portions of the New World with the inscription parrot land original: "terra papagalli" on the part corresponding to South America. This has no date and is not accompanied by any description.

Lastly is a similar map with the name America and an? inscription at the top dated 1522 L. F. This is plainly the map described by Humboldt (Cosmos, Volume III, Note 17, p. 490 original: "Kosmos. Bd. III Anm. 17 p. 490"), as one occurring