Description of a Wood Engraving Illustrating the South American Indians
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Stewart, the bookseller, being the buyer. How or when the print passed into the possession of Sir Thomas Phillipps, has not been definitely determined. There is a strong probability, however, that Stewart was acting as agent for Sir Thomas at the sale, and bought it for him. Stewart was a dealer chiefly in theological books, and it is not at all likely that he would have speculated on his own account in a pur- chase of this kind at fifteen guineas. At any rate, from the date of this sale in Mar...ch, 1861, all knowledge of the whereabouts of the print seems to have been lost, until its reappearance in 1919. In the meantime, Mr. Henry Harrisse published his Bibliotheca Ameri- cana Vetustissima (New York, 1866), and, under the year 1497, he copied for his no. 20, the inscription and description as given in Stevens's American 6 THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY Bibliographer and Historical Nuggets, adding for its location ("British Mu- seum"), on what authority he does not state. This error as to location was repeated in Justin VVinsor's Narrative and Critical History of America (1885), vol.
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