212 BIBLIOTHECA PISCATORIA. 



Vanhaecken (Arnold). The wonders of ye deep often at- 

 tempted, but never performed but by Arnold Vanhaecken. 

 1762. fol. 



[ Nine plates, "painted from the life by A. V. Engrav'd by Giles 

 King." The first, " The view and humours of Billingsgate," and 

 the rest spirited drawings of fish, in picturesque groups.] 

 Vaniere (Jacques). Jacobi Vanierii, e Societate Jesu sacerdotis, 

 praedium rusticum. Nova editio. Tolosae, 1730. 12.; 

 Tolosae, 1742. 12.; Parisiis, 1746. 12.; Amstel., 1749. 12.; 

 Colonise Munat. J. R. Thurneisen. 1750. 12.; Parisiis, 

 1765. 8.; Paris, 1780. 12. 



[ The 1 5th canto (" Stagna ") first appeared in the revised edition 

 of 1730.] 



Fishing. A translation from the Latin of Vanier. 



Book XV. upon fish. By the late Rev. John Buncombe, of 

 C. C. Coll., Camb. With a brief introduction ; and passages 

 from English writers, selected as notes. London, Triphook, 

 1809. pp. ii. 44. 8. 



[ An article in the " Censura Literaria," of which a few additional 

 copies "were printed for general distribution." Mr. Hazlewood 

 has added many curious notes. The Rev. J. Buncombe was Rector 

 of Hearne, Kent. He died Jan. igth 1786, astat. 56, see Gentleman's 

 Magazine, vol. 56, pp. 187-451. That he was no Magister in the 

 "Ars poetica," his translation gives sorrowful demonstration. It 

 was transfered bodily by Daniel into his supplement to " Rural 

 sports," without acknowledgement.] 



Varro ( Marcus Terentius). De re rustica libri tres, included 

 in: Scriptores rei rusticae, Venet. 1472. fol.; Lipsiae, 1735, 

 1773-4. 4-; Manhemiae, 1781. 8.; Biponti, 1787-8. 8.; 

 Lipsiae, 1794-7- 8. 



The three books of M. Terentius Varro concerning 



agriculture. Translated by the Rev. T. Owen, M.A. Oxford, 

 University Press, 1800. 8. 



[ Book III, cap. xvii treats De pistinis, which are also mentioned 

 in chapter iii of the same book. The extravagance of the age had 

 led the Romans, in Varro's time, to despise the old fresh-water ponds 

 of their forefathers and construct at a vast expense salt-water ponds, 

 where sea-fish were preserved and nurtured. The taste of the period 

 (not the manners let us hope,) is shown in an anecdote which Varro 

 relates, in his usual lively style, of our Philippus, the owner of large 

 sea-ponds, who, when a fine pike from the river was placed before 

 him at the house of a friend, spit out the portion he had tasted, 

 exclaiming " Peream ni piscem putavi esse." Famous ponds were 

 also possessed by the Luculli and by Q. Hortensius. Varro says that 

 the latter always sent out to buy fish for supper, and adds with a pun, 

 you might more easily get his chariot mules out of their stables 

 than mullets out of his pond. Varro's work is the best on Roman 

 agriculture that has come down to us. It is in dialogue form and 

 abounds with verbal pleasantries. " Sic hos pisces nemo cocus in 



