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ment our readers will he surprised to learn that tlie "Alceo" is u 

 play in live acts and in verse ; that it is a lo\-e story of the most 

 romantic kind in the style of Tasso's 'Aminta,' the pastoral 

 characters heini; replaced hy fishers ; and that the allusions to the 

 occupations of the interlocutors are of the slightest and most cur- 

 sory nature. In other words tliat Mr. Hlakey having,' heen made a 

 "victim" hy some facetious friend, has in turn deluiled a genera- 

 ation of simjile anglers anil hibliographers.] 

 Onomatologia forestalis-piscatorio-venatoria. Oder voUslaii- 



dige.s F'()rst,-Fisch-nnd Jaj^d-Le.xicon. etc. (Onoinatolocrjx... 



supplenieiUiiin, oder Beytrao;e mid Verbesserungen...Verft:r- 



tigt iind herausgegcben von J. F. Stahl.) 4 Thle. Frankfurt 



und Leipzig, Stuttgart, 1772-3, Xo. 8°. 



[The 4th volume, iirinted at Stullgarl in 1780, contains the suii- 

 plement W J. F. Stahl.] 

 Oppian. De piscatu libri v, L. Lippius ... tradu.xit. Gallus 



cognoniine Bonus in-ipressit...in Colle oppido niunicipio floren- 



tino anno 1478. b.l. fi. 64. 4°. 



[The first edition of Oppian and very rare. A copy has been 

 sold for 1000 francs (Brunet); Sykes ^10 los. Mention has been 

 made of an edition in 147 1 b}' the same printer but its existence is 

 very doubtful.] 



Halieutika. De natura seu venatione pisciuni lib. v. 



[Gr.] Florentine, in sedibus Ph. Juntse. 1515. ff- 64. 8°. 

 [This is the first edition of the Greek te.xt and very rare.] 

 De piscibus, L. Lippio interprete, lib. v. [Gr. & Lat.] Vene- 

 tiis, in oedibus Aldi et Andreae Soceri. 1517. ff. 168. 8°. 

 [ Editio princeps. " Rare et recherche," says Brunei, although 

 the text is held to be less exact than that of 15 15.] 

 De piscatu libri v. [Gr.] Parisiis, apud Adr. Turnebum. 



^555- 4°- 



De piscatu libri V...L Lippio interprete. Parisiis, apud Gul. 

 Morelium. 1555. 4°. 



De venatione lib. iv. de piscatu lib. v. Cum interpre- 



tatione Latina et coniinentai iis studio et opera Conr. Ritter- 

 shusii. [Gr. &Lat.] Lugd. Bat. r5Q7. 8°. 



[ The Prolegomena contain a list of writers on fishes, See Cata- 

 logues.] 



De venatione lib. iv. et de piscatione lib. v. [Gr. & Lat.] 

 Curavit J. G. Schneider. Argentorati, Konig. 1776. 8°. 



[ Copies of this edition are found on Dutch paper : three in 4to.; 

 six in 8vo. One copy in 4to. was also taken on vellum.] 

 Poemata de venatione et piscatione [ Gr.]. cum interpre- 

 tatione Latina et scholiis. Argentorati. [Heitz], 1786. 8°. 



Cynegetica et halieutica, [ Gr. & Lat.]...emendavit J. G. 

 Schneider ; accedunt versiones latinae, metrica ( D. Peiferi) et 

 prosaica, etc. Lipsise, Weigel, 18 13. 8°. 



[ An improved text. Schneider with great probability maintains 



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