30G BULLETIN UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. [Tol.Y. 



IG'.V.]. Dk Laet, J. Novvs Orbis | seu | Descriptioiiis | India? Occidentalis — Libri 

 XVIII. I Authore | loainie de Laet Antverp. | Novis Tabulis Geograpliicis et 

 variis I Auimantinm, Plantarum Fructiinmqne | Iconibus illustrati. | Cvui 

 Privilegio. | Lvgd. Batav. apud Elsevirios. A". 1633. 1 vol. Folio. IG 

 p. 11. iucl. half-title, eng. title, aud li.st of (14) maps, pp. 1-690, 9 11. (index). 



1640. De Laet, J. L'Histoire | dv | Nouveaii Monde ] ou | description | des ludes 

 Occidentales, | Contenant dix-hiiict Liures, | Par le Sieur lean de Laet, 

 d'Anuers; | Enriclii de noviuelles Tables Geographiques & Figures des | Ani- 

 maux, Plautes & Fruicts. | [Dessin.] | A Leyde, | Cliez Bouanentnre A: Abra- 

 ham Elseuiers, Imprimeurs | ordinaires de I'Vniuersite. | — | do loc XL. I 

 vol. Folio. 14 p. 11., i)p. 1-63-2, 6 11., 14 maps. 



"Tlii-s French tianslation of Laet contains many materials not found in the original 

 Dutch, . . . This work is full of the most excellent and curious details of the natural 

 history, . . .' 



168'2. NiEUHOF, J. Johan Nienhofs | Gedeukweerdige | Brasiliaeuse | Zee- en Lant- | 

 Reize. | Behelzende | Al het geen op dezelve is voorgevallen. | Beneftens | Eeu 

 bondige beschrijving van gautsch | Neerlants Brasil, | Zoo van lantschappen, 

 steden, dieresi, gewassen, als | draghten, zeden en godsdien.st der iuwoon- 

 ders: | En inzonderheit | Een wijtloopig verhael der merkwaardigste voor- 

 vallen | en geschiedenissen, die zich, gedunrende zijn uegeujarigh | verblijf 

 in Brasil, in d'oorlogen en opstant der Portugesen | tegen d' onzen, zich sedert 

 het jaer 1640. tot 1649. | hebben toegedragen. | Doorgaens verciert met ver- 

 scheide af beeldingen, na 't leven aldaer getekent. ] [Afbeeld.] | t' Amsterdam, 

 I — I Voor de AVeduwe van Jacob van Meurs, op de Keizers-gracht. 1682. 

 1 vol. Folio. Eng. title, ilium, title, dedication, arms, privilege, introduc- 

 tion, each one leaf; pp. 1-308, 2 11. (directions to binder, and index) ; 44 en- 

 gravings. 



See what is said anted, p. 241. In addition to this, there is on p. 281 a heading "Indiaense en 

 Javaense vogels en viervoetige dieren"; underwhich descriptions of various East Indian and 

 particularly Javan birds mn to p. 288, including two engravings on which the Dodo and 

 various other birds are figured. 



The above is the full printed title. The work is scarcely citable in the present connection, 

 being of a more general character. 



1724. [Labat, PereJ. B.] Nouveau | Voyage | [du Pere Jean Baptiste Labat] | 

 anx Isles | de I'Amerique. | Contenant | L'Histoire Naturelle de ces Pays, | 

 rOrigine, les Moeurs, la Religion & le Gouvemement des | Habitans anciens 

 & modemes: | Les Guerres & les Evenemens siuguliers qui y sont arrivez 

 pendant | le long s^jour que I'Auteur y a fait: | le Commerce et les Manufac- 

 tures I qui y sont 6tablies, & les moyens de les augmenter. | Ouvrage enrichi 

 d'un grand nombre de Cartes, Plans, & Figures en Taille-douce. | Tome pre- 



, ^, (P. Husson. T. Johnson, 

 mier [second]. | [Vignette.] | A la Haye, | Chezj j Van Duren. R.Alberts. 



P. Gosse I j^j ^^^ ^^.^. 2 vols. 4to. Vol. I, 3 p. 11., pp. j-viij, 1-360, 



& C. Le Vier. I 



211., 47 maps and plates. Vol. II, 4 p. 11., pp. 1-520, 9 11., many maps and 



plates. 



There are many editions. Sabin's Bill, gives the following, besides the above :— Paris, 6 

 vols., 12mo, 1722.— La H.aye, 6 vols., 12mo, 1724.— Paris, Svols., TJmo, 1742 ; augmented.— Paris, 

 8vo, 1831 ; abridged.— Dutch, Amsterdam, 4 vols., 4to, 1725.— Latin, Niimberg, 7 vols., 12mo, 

 1782-88. 



The celebrated work is very full on the Natural History of the "West Indies, and ornithol- 

 ogy comes in for its share of treatment; but the copious details are so scattered through the 

 volumes that formal citation of the bird-matter becomes inconvenient. 



1745. Warren, G. Impartial Description of Surinam, &c. 



The date of the original is said to be 1G67. The only .sliape in which I have handled it is as 

 a part of Vol. II of Osbome"s "A Collection of Voyages and Travels", etc., folio, London, 

 174,'), where it is given with a. half-title-page as follows:— An impartial | Description | of | Sur- 

 inam I upon the I Continent of Guinea | in | America. | TVith a | History of several strange 



