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on the fabjeft. It was afterwards tranf- 

 lated into Latin by the Author, and was 

 republilhed with additions, alfo in 4to, 

 and at Rome in 1684, but this Latin 

 edition is rare. 



Buonanni's work gives us a feries of 

 figures of the feyeral fpecies of Shells, 

 to the number of 450 in the Italian edi- 

 tion, and of 550 in the Latin edition; 

 they are mod of them tolerably well 

 engraved, but faulty in that the Shells are 

 reverfed by the inaccuracy of the engraver. 

 He accompanies each with its particular 

 dpfcription ; but the defcriptions are not 

 good, being too concife anduninftrudlive; 

 lie betides gives feveral philofophical chap-t 

 ^ers on the origin, nature, forms, co- 

 lours, properties, and other curious par« 

 ticul^rs of Teftaceous animals. 



The next is Lifteri Hiftoria Conchy- 

 liorum, publiflied in folio, at different 

 times, from 1685 to 1692. It i^ an ex^ 



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