The First Delineation of the New World and the First Use of the Name America on a Printed Map: An Analytical Comparison of Three Maps for Each of Which Priority of Representation Has Been Claimed (Two With Name America and One Without), With an Argument T

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Being thus convinced that the map, besides being the earliest then known to show in print the New - World discoveries, was the first to bear the name america, I Offered it for sale as such to the late Mr John Nicholas Brown. He replied that he was intensely interested, but before purchasing would like to have full particulars of the evidence on which my conclusions were based. I accordingly submitted to him a detailed report, in which the whole question was fully argued from numerous points of View. Mr Brown then wrote that as the matter was so very important he was submitting the report to an expert for an impartial opinion, and would purchase the map if my contentions were upheld. The report was still under consideration when on May 1, 1 900, there supervened, to the lasting regret of all who knew him, the untimely death of Mr Brown.

Shortly afterwards, the expert having given a favourable opinion, Mr Brown's mother, the late Mrs John Carter Brown (05. Completed the purchase and presented the map to the John Carter Brown Library in memory of her son. It is now preserved in an elegant morocco leather portfolio bearing the inscription presented TO the john carter brown library BY sophia augusta brown IN memory OF her son john nicholas brown 1901.

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