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Great care has been taken to make the transcription of titles strictly 

 literal, interpolations or emendations being inclosed in brackets. 

 Errors of transcription can, nevertheless, scarcely be otherwise than 

 frequent, as every bibliographer must be well aware. The orthography 

 and capitalization of scientific names are intended to be literal, or in 

 accordance with the usage of the particular work under notice, from 

 which, however, there are doubtless occasional lapses. The attempt 

 has been made to bring the "List" down to the end of the year 1880, 

 but a few later titles have been added, and there are doubtless many 

 deficiencies for the last year of the record. 



MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY, 



Cambridge, Mass., September, 1881. 



1495. ALBERTUS MAGNUS. Diui Albert! Magni de Animalibus | libri vigintisex Novis- 

 sime Impress!. [First page.] fol. 11. 6, ff. 1-^254 . 



ImpressumUenetijs per Joaimem & Gregoriuin | de Gregorys fratres. Anno 

 incarnatiouis dominice | Millesirno quadringentesimo nonagesimo quinto | die, 

 xxi. Maij. Regnante duo Augustino Barbadi co | inclitoDuceUenetial/ [f. 254], 



Cetus, f. 240 ; Delphinus, f. 241 ; Monoceros, f. 244. . The interest attaching to tho cetologi- 

 cal matter is purely historic. [1.] 



1510. ANDREW, LAUR. "The wonderful sliape and nature of man, beastes, serpeutes, 

 fowles, fishes, and monsters, translated out of divers authors by L. Andrew 

 of Calis, and printed at Antuerpe, by John Doesborow. (Doesborch, 1510.) 

 fol. With pictures." 



Not seen; title from Bosgoed, op. cif., p. 2, no. 10. [2.] 



1526. OVIEDO, G. F. DE. Otiiedo dela natural hy | storia delas Indias. | Con preuile- 

 gio dela | S. C. C. M. | [For Gonaalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valde"s. Toledo. 

 1526.] 4. ff. i-lij+3pp. 



Delos manaties, f. xlviij (30 lines). The account of the Manatee here given is brief in com- 

 parison with that in the Hist. gen. Ind., 1535, q. v. [3.] 



1533. MARTYR, P. Petri Martyris | ab Angleria mediolanen. Oratoris | clarissimi, 

 Fernandi & Helisabeth Hispaniaruin quondam rcgum | a consilijs, de rebus 

 Oceanis & Orbe nouo decades tres: quibus | quicquid de inuentis nuper terris 

 tradituin, nouarum rerum cupi- | dum lectorem retinere possit, copiose, tideli- 

 ter, erudititp docetur. | Eivsdem praeterea | Legationis Babylonicac li | bri 

 tres: vbi praeter oratorii mvneris | pulcherrimuni exemplum, etiam quicquid 

 in uariarum gentium mori- | bus & institutis insigniter preclarum uidit que^' 

 terra mariqi acciderunt, | omnia lectu mire iucunda, genere dicendi politis- 

 simo traduntur. | [Design.] Basileae, | | M. D. XXXIII. | fol. }1. 12, if. 

 1-92. 

 Manati, f. 60, C, D. [4.] 



1535. OVIEDO, G. F. DE. La historia general | delas Indias. | [Por Gonzalo Fernan- 

 dez de Oviedo y Valde"s.] Con priuilegio imperial. [Sevilla, 1535.] | 4 C . 

 11. 4, ff. i-cxciij. 



Capitulo x. Del Manati y de su grandeza & forma : & de la manera qne algunas vezes los 

 indios tomauan este grade animal conel pexereuerso : & otras particularidades. ff. cvj-cviij, fig. 

 The account occupies 5 pp., and is important as the source whence many later compilers 

 drew their materials for the history of the Manatee, and is still historically of the highest in. 

 terest. There is a small, very rude cut, hearing some likeness to the general form of tho 

 Manatee the earliest figure of the animal published. In the edition of 1547 the text (if. cvj- 

 cvijj) is the same as in the present, but the figure is slightly different, showing an attempt at 

 art istic impro vem ent. f 5 . 1 



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