angel letter. The author was Guiliano Dati. Bishop of Saint Leone, 
orn a Florence in ,1445, and the author of several poems, which 
are among the rarest of bibliographical curiosities. 
On a large pedestal (5 1 ), in the next hall beyond Hall 8, will be 
found one of the guns planted near the palace of Diego Columbus 
at Santo Domingo in the year 1509, being one of the largest guns 
hat could be procured at that time, and placed there to destroy 
the palace at the first sign of insubordination on the part of Diego 
o umbus by the council sent over to restrain any attempt that 
might be made to establish an independent government. On 
pedestal (52) is a pile of stone, brick and tiles which represents all 
settlement 
1493 founded by Columbus on his second voyage in 
Returning to the main hall (Hall 9) 
Screens Nos. 4,5, 6, 7, 8, 9, lO, 11, 12, and 13 
should now be inspected in the order given. Here will be found 
facsimiles of letters written by Columbus, pictures, maps and 
charts relahng to the publication of the discovery, the christening 
of the continent, the conquest of Mexico and Peru, and the settle- 
m6nt ot other portions of A.merica„ 
Cases 29 and 30 — Rare books in connection with the 
NrTTV mu 417— First Biography of Columbus ever published. 
( 4 ' 5 -The first published portrait of Columbus. No. 419-One 
published concerning the West Indies. No. 
4 i«-Lite of Columbus, by his son, Fernando. No. 42i~The kii 
edition of Ptolemy. No. 414-The book of Philopono; a curious 
description of the new world by a Benedictine monk. No. 40;— 
Facsimile of the letmr of Columbus to Rafael Sanchez. No. 416 - 
anuscript copy, in Latin, of Ptolemy’s Cosmographiae, 1504. 
No. 504 -lllustrated Spanish Missal of the 15th century, from a 
r ranciscan convent in the interior of Peru. 
Portraits of Gautrin Lud, 
founder of the Gymnase Vosgien, which christened America 
rr.Ji.2 ooS GylSr' 
No. 447 .-Portrait of Matthias Ringman, Member of the 
Americus Vespucius. 
which, when translated, christened the New World. 
