410 BULLETIN UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 



1617. PURCHAS, S. Of King lames his Newland, alias, Greenland : And Of The Whale 

 And Whale-Fishing. <^Purchas his Pilgrimage, or Relations of the World $ the 

 Religions observed in al dges <$ Places, etc., 3d ed., 1617, pp. 920-924. 



Of special interest as containing the earliest English, and the first distinct, description of 

 the Greenland Whale (Balcena mysticetus) detailed, exceedingly quaint, and in the main 

 quite correct. It was derived from information furnished by Master Thomas Sherwin, hased 

 on his experiences in whaling in the year 1611. [46.] 



162*2. WHITBOURNE, R. A | Discovrse | and Discovery of Nevv-fovndland, with | 

 many reasons to prooue how worthy and bene- | ficiall a Plantation may there 

 be made, after a far | better manner than now it is. | Together with the lay- 

 ing j open of certaine enormities | and abuses committed by some that trade 

 to that | Countrey, and the meanes laide downe for | reformation thereof. | 

 Written by Captaine Richard Whitbourne of | Exmouth, in the County of 

 Deuon, and pub- | lished by Authority. | As also, an Inuitation : and likewise 

 certaine Letters sent | from that Countrey ; which are printed in the | latter 

 part of this Booke. [Design.] | Imprinted at London by Felix Kingston. 

 1622. sm. 4. 11. 11, pp. 1-107, 11. 2|, pp. 1-15. 



Reference to cod-Hshing and whale-fishing (pp. 11-13) as carried on at the Grand Banks by 

 the Biscayners in 1615. 



The work was first published in 1620, without the appendix of the present edition ; there 

 is also a later (1623) edition, neither of which have I seen. The 1622 ed. seems to be the same 

 as the ed. of 1620, so far as the body of the work is concerned, to which there is added, besides 

 tbe above-mentioned appendix, 2 preliminary leaves, containing also new matter. [47.] 



1622-35. "WASSEXAER, CLAES. Historisch verhael alder ghedenck-weerdichste Ge- 

 schiedenisse, diehier en daer in Europa, als in Duitsch-lant, Vranckrijk ... en 

 Neder -laut, Asia, America en Africa, van den begiune des jaers 1621 tot Octo- 

 bri des jaers 1G32 voorgevallen sijn. (Met platen, kaarten en portretten.) 

 Tot Amstelredam, by Jan Evertsz. Kloppenburgh, 1622-1624, J. Hondius, 



1624, en Jan Jansz, 1625-35. 21 din., 7 bdn. 4. 



"Zie aldaar: Welvaert van de Noortsehe Compagnio (gehikkige walvischvangst). De 

 inwoonders van Spitsberghen. Het verloop van de walvisschen, v, 1623, Septemb., bl. 157- 

 158. Van het eylandt Spitsbergen, alwaer do genereuse "Willem Tas, capiteyn, zijn. couragie 

 toont. Ook van de walvisschen, haer baeruen en vinncn, baleynen genaemt, die Jan Osborn, 

 seer konstigh verwerckt. Handelingh van de Noordersche Compagnie. Verslag van de reis 

 van Willem Vermuyden, 1612. Wat recht de Engelschen pretendeeren op de walvischvangst 

 bij Spitsbergen, met de wederlegging van Petr. Plancius. Overeenkomst tusschen Ant. 

 Monier en Benj. Joseph, aangaandc de verdeeliug van den vischgrond bij Spitsbergen en ver- 

 dere bijzonderheden betrekkelijk de walvischvangst, viii < 1624, Decemb., bl. 86-96. Ontde- 

 ckingen van Goenlant en Nieu-Nedorlant, ix, 1625, April, bl. 43, 44. Placcaet der H. H. Staten 

 op den haringhvanghst, teghens d' inghesetenen van Schotlandt haer wel to draeghen, ix, 



1625, Mai, bl. 56, 57. Vervolgh van het on I deck en van de doorvaert in 't Noordea. Toerus- 

 tinghe van een nieuwe ontdeckinghe, door Waygatz, tusschen Nova-Zembla en 't vasto lan'dt 

 Hussion, ix, 1625, Julius. Van do Spitsberch-vaerders, met het sncces van de walvisch- 

 vanghers, x, 1625, Decemb., bl. 106, 107. Verhael van de reyse op "Wavgatz, na de Tarta- 

 rische zee gedaen, alsmede van de reyse door het Fretum Davis, om daerdoor nae China te 

 gaen. Nieuwe walrus-vangers, xi, 1626, May, bl. 57. 



" Walvischvaugst ghemist. De buysen verstoort. Walrusvanghen en 't seylen door Way- 

 gats ghemist, xi, 1626, Sept., bl. 131-133. Wederom-comst van do walvischvanghers, alsmede 

 de Spitsbergh-vaerders, onder do Noortsche Compagnie, xii, 1626, Octob., bl. 8, 9. Visscherije 

 op Spitsberghen, xvi, 1628, Novemb. Staet van Spitsberghon, xvi, 1628, Decemb." 



Not seen; title and references from Bosgoed, op. cit., p. 251, no. 3603. [48.] 



1624. "BAUDARTIUS, W. Memoryen ofte Cort Verhael dcr Gedenck-weerdichste, 

 Gheschiedenissen van Nederland, Vranckrijck, Hoogh-Duytschland, Groot 

 Brittannyen enz. Van den jaere 1503-1624. Tweedo editie grootelicx ver- 

 meerdert. Met portretten. Arnhem, Jan Jansz. 1614. 2 din. folio. 



"Zie aldaar: Enghelsche verhinderen de Hollanders in don walvisch-vanck. Boek v, bl. 

 43. Jacobus VI vernieuwt de questio van den harinck-vanck. xii, bl. 16. Nederlanders endo 

 Enghelsche int gevecht om de visvangh. Misverstant tussche de Enghelsche ende Neder- 

 landers om den walvisch-vanck. ix, bl. 97. Vier walvisschen bij den Hage (Scheveningen) 

 gevangen. ix, bl. 97, 202." 



Not seen; title and comment from Bosgoed, op. cit., p. 232, no. 3424. [49.] 



