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of any rare or valuable fpecies, as the 

 Ventletrap, Admirals, &c. in whofe col- 

 leftions they are, and their original prices. 



He gives like accounts of the Weft In- 

 dian and European Shells; as alfo enume- 

 rates the coUeftions made by the Dutch 

 in the Eaft Indies, from Rumphius's go- 

 ing therein 1655, and of the chief col- 

 ledlions in Holland, with lifts of the moft 

 capital Shells in each coUedion. 



The whole is embellifiied with fixteen 

 copper-plates of Shells, well engraved, 

 containing one hundred and four univalves 

 and thirty bivalves. 



This is a curious but not a fcientifical 

 work. And in two large, or flieet plates, 

 wherein he has figured fome fea plants, 

 and fome fifti, he has given a fine figure 

 of a Mermaid as vulgarly painted ; this 

 ridiculous circumftance alone has degraded 

 his work among the too lively collectors. 



Les 



