ALLEN'S BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CETACEA AND SIRENIA. 407 



1598 (circa). ANOX. ? "Eeno beschrijvingho des grooten Vischs, die tot Berkhcy ghe- 

 strandct is A. 1598 den 2 Febr., met eene verclaringhe der dinghen die 

 daeraaer ghevolght zijn. Met nocb een cort verhael, enz. (Znd. pi. of jaar.) " 



"Met eene afbeelding van <lcn walvisch op den tit el. 



"Zie: TIELE, JSibl. vanpamfletten, no. 431 Boil, Ned. Oorl, (1697), iv, f. 434; (1621), 35boek, 

 f. 11." 



Not seen ; title and comment from Bosgocd, 1. c., p. 175, no. 2759. [31.] 



1598 (circa). MATIIAM, J. "Walvisch, gestraud tusscbeu Scbeveningen en Katwijk in 

 1598. Door J. Matham, met 12 regelig hollandsch vers. Van dezo prent bestaan 

 verschillende kopyen, o. a. door G. van der Gouwen. br. fol." 



Not seen; title from Bosgoed, op.cit.,p. 176, no. 2773, who says: Zie: Mailer, Historie- 

 prenten, no. 1081-1084." 



(Muller's Beschrijo. van Ned. historieprenten, hero and elsewhere cited from Bosgoed, I have 

 been unable to see.) [32.] 



1599. "OLAUS MAGNUS. Do wonderlycke Mstorie dor Noorderache Landen, be- 

 schreven door Olaus de Groote. Ook ai'ter aen by ghevoecht vorschcydeu 

 waerachtige Nauigatien tegent Noordeu ghedaen by onsen tyt, als op Nova- 

 Zembla, Groenlant en door de Strata van Nassouwen anders Weygats ghe- 

 naemt. Amsterdam, Cornelis Clacsz." (1599.)' 4. 



" Zie aldaar, 21e en 22e boek : Yan de visschen ; van de vreemde en gedrochtelijke visschen, 

 en walvischvangst. De appendix bevat de reizen naar het Noorden van St. Burrough, Fro- 

 bisher, Pet and Jackman, en de drie eersten reizen der Hollanders. De 2e druk, 1652, 8, 

 bevat tevens 'Een korte en klare beschrijving van Ijslandt en Greenland t,' door Dithmarius 

 Blefkenins." 



Not seen ; title and comment from Bosgoed, op. cit., p. 244, no. 3526. See, also, Latin ed. 

 of 1555. [33.] 



1599. The request of an honest merchant to a friend of his, to be aduised 



and directed in the course of killing the Whale, as followeth. An. 1575. 

 <^HaJclu}it'8 Navig. and Voyag., i, 1599, pp. 413, 414. 



A series of questions respecting the provisioning and furnishing of a ship for a whaling 

 voyage, with detailed answers,- " which may serue as directions for all such as shall intend 

 the same voyage, or the like, for the Whale." [34.] 



1601. SAEXREDAM, J. "Walvisch, gestrand onder Beverwyk, bezichtigd door Graaf 



Ernst Casimir, 1601. Door J. Saenredam. (Met 32 regelig latijnsch vers door 



T. Sere velius. ) " gr. br. fol . 



"Dezelfde prent met het adrcs van J. Janssonius, 1618. gr. br. fol." 



Not seen; title and comment from Bosgoed, op. cit., p. 176, no. 2774, who refers to "Muller, 



Historieprenten, no. 1160." [35.] 



1602. [AcosTA, J. DE.] De Novi Orbis Natvra et Ratione. <^De Bry, America nona # 



postrema Pars, 1802, pp. 1-362. 



De diuersis generibus & formis pischmi, in India nascentium, lib. iii, cap. xv, pp. 105-109. 

 For comment see orig. ed., 1590, and next title. [36.] 



1602. DE BUY, THEODORUS, J. T., et J. I. ld;ua | vera et genvina, | Prsecipvarvm 

 Historia- | rvm omnivm, vt et variorvm j. Ritvvin, Ceremoniarvm, consve- 

 tvdi- | uumque gentis Indica3 : Sicut & priinarium ciuitatum, Insularum- | que 

 & arcium sou propugnaculorum : do quibns in hac | iiona Americas seu Indiie 

 Occidentalis histo- | riaruni parto pertractatur. | Cvilibet Historic designa- 

 tioni, | facilioris intellectus, maiorist^ oblectationis causa, Icones ali- | quam- 

 rnultae, artificiosissim5 in ses incisae, annex | appositajq^ sunt, I Sumptibus, 

 Studio & industria | Theodori de Bry, p. m. relictse viduae, & loann. Theo- 

 do- | ri ac loann. Israel, filiorum. | [Design.] Francofvrti, | Excvdebat 

 Matthaevs Becker. | | M.DCII. fol. Tab. i-xxvi, cum texte. 



Tab. i. De Indorvm mira piscationis ratione. Plato and 15 lines of text, illustrating the 

 way in which the Indians capture whales, viz, by rowing up to them in their canoes and get. 

 ting astride the neck and then driving wooden stakes into their blow-holes, which speedily 

 causes their death by suffocation. They then attach lines to the stakes and tow the dead 

 whale ashore. In the background is seen a dead whale being thus towed by an Indian in a 

 canoe, and more in the foreground is an Indian astride a whale driving in the stakes, his canoe 

 resting on the whale's back ! The blow-holes are represented, as in other cuts of this date, 



