INTRODUCTION. Xlii 



always rank high as an authority on the subjects of 

 which it treats. 



The Historia Natural, in its complete form, was first 

 published at Seville in 1590 (4to.), next at Barcelona 

 in 1591 (Svo.). The Madrid editions appeared in 1608 1 

 and 1610. An Italian translation, by Giovanni Paolo 

 Gallucio, appeared in 1596 2 at Venice. 



The work of Acosta was translated into Dutch by 

 the great traveller J. Huyghen van Linschoten, and 

 published at Enckhuysen in 1598 (Svo.), and at Am 

 sterdam in 1624 (4to.). 3 The French translation was 

 by E. Kegnauld, and two editions appeared at Paris in 

 1597 and 1600. 4 De Bry published the work in Latin 

 at Frankfort in 1602 (fol.) and 1603, and a German 

 edition in 1601 (fol.) : being Part ix of his America. 5 A 

 compilation from it was published by De Bry at 

 Frankfort, in Latin in 1624, and in German in 1623; 



1 It is with the Madrid edition of 1608 that the translation, now 

 reprinted, has been collated. 



2 Historia naturale e morale delle Indie, novamente tradotta deJle 

 lingua Spagnuola nella Italiana de G. P. Gained. (Venetia, 1596, 

 4to.) 



3 Historic naturael ende morael van de Wester sche Indien nu 

 eerstmeal uyt den Spaenschen overgheset door J. Iluyghen van Lin 

 schoten. (Enckhuysen, 1598, 8vo.) 



4 Histoire naturelle et morale des Indes . . . traduite par R. Reg- 

 nauld. (Paris, 1597, Svo.) 



5 Theodor de Bry. Americas novae pars . . . de novis orbis naturae. 

 Acosta. America, Pars ix. (Francoforti, 1602, fol.) 



Von gelegenJieit der Elemente natur de Neiver Welt J. H. van 

 Linschoten. De Bry. (1601, fol.) 



6 Paralipomena Americce, hoc est discursus accurataque America? 

 descrirjtio. T. de Bry. America, Pars xn. (Frankfort, fol., 1624.) 



