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The work is an immense folio of 500 pages, got 

 up in a style of elegance of execution of which ive 

 rarely see an example even in these latter times, and 

 comprising nearly 100 copperplates of the same 

 dimensions, many of which have not been surpassed 

 by the efforts of modern art. To the proper subject- 

 matter of the volume are prejSxed various imperial 

 and other documents confirming the copy-right to 

 the author. One of these is from the Emperor 

 Charles V., and another from the Pope; and of 

 this latter, as containing some allusion to our 

 author, as well as illustrating the aspiring spirit 

 and practical working of the ecclesiastical power, 

 and also as exhibiting the views then entertained 

 on the subject of literary property and the rights of 

 authors, a subject of undiminished interest now, 

 we may here quote a part : — " Pope Julius III. &c. 

 Forasmuch as our beloved son, Hippolito Salviani, 

 a Roman citizen, and who for many years has been 

 our ordinary physician, has caused it to be notified 

 to us, that with gi*eat labour he has written a 

 history of aquatic animals, and has printed it, to- 

 gether with copperplate figures of the animals, 

 drawn from the Hfe, and engraved at much per- 

 sonal expense, and since he apprehends that a 

 work of this kind may be reprinted without his 

 leave, and greatly to his prejudice. We, wishing to 

 protect him from loss, grant and appoint that the 

 said history and figures be not printed, sold, or 

 kept for sale, by any one without his pennission, 

 during the ten years succeeding their first impress- 



