ALLEN'S BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CETACEA AND SIRENIA. 417 



1652. ANON. " De Vrye Zee, aengaede haere vryheyt in 't varen en visschen voor do 

 Veeren Nederlanden, verdedigt tegen alle bestryders der Gerechticheyt, inson- 

 derheyt teghen die hedendaechsche Regeringe in Engeland. [No place.] 

 1652. 4." 



"Pp. 55-62 treat of the Herring- and Whale-fishery and the pretensions of the English on 

 Greenland and Spitzhergen." 



Not seen; title and comment from FT. Muller, Cat. Amer. Bookt, 1877, p. 200, no. 3424. 



[77.] 



1655. "N. N." America: | or | An Exact Description | of the | West Indies: | More 

 especially of those | Provinces which are under j the Dominion of the | King of 

 Spain. | | Faithfully represented by N. N. Gent. | | London, printed by 

 Ric. Hodgkinsoime for Edw. Dod, | and are to be sold at the Gun in Ivy -lane, 

 1655. sm. 8 by sig. U. 7, pp. 1-484, 1. 1, map. 



The Manati or Oxe-fish, pp. 154, 155. Account based mainly on Hernandez and Laet. [78.] 



1655. WORM, OLAUS. Museum Wormianum. | Sen j Historia | Rerum Rariorum, 

 Tarn Naturalium, quam Artificialium, tarn Domesticarum, | quam Exoticarum, 

 quse Hafnias Danorum in | asdibus Authoris servantur. | Adornata ab | Olao 

 Worm, med. doct. | &, in Regid Hafniensi Academia, olim | Professore pub- 

 lico. | Variis & accuratis Iconibus illustrata. | [Vignette.] LugduniBata- 

 vorum, | Apud Johannem Elsevirivm, Acad. Typograph. | | ClQ IQC LV. 

 2. 11. 9, pp. 1-390, 1. 1. Cuts in text. 



Cap. xiii, De Cetis, pp. 279, 280 ; cap. xiv, De Ceto dentato, Balena, Monocerote, pp. 280- 

 287; cap. xv, De Delphino, Pristi, Phoca, Rosmaro, pp. 288-290. Skull of Narwhal figured, 

 three views, and a view of the tusk separate, pp. 283-285; also a grotesque figure of the ani- 

 mal, p. 282. 



Cap. xiii, De Cetis, consists mainly of a briefly descriptive list of Whales from the cele- 

 brated Icelandic manuscript "Specvlum regale," numbering 22 species. (Cf. Eschricht and 

 Eeinhardt, "Om Nordhvalen," 1861, p. 39, and the English translation, "Memoirs on Ceta. 

 cea," Bay Society, 1866, p. 32.) The account and figures of the Narwhal are from the MSS. 

 of D. Thorlacus Sculonius. [79.] 



1657. "BARTHOLINUS, TH. Cetorum genera." 



"Zie: Th. Bartholinus', Historia Anatom., cent, iv, 1657, pp. 272-285." 



Not seen ; from Bosgoed, Bibl. Ichthyol. etPiscat., p. 157, no. 2477. [80.] 



1657. JONSTON, JOHX. An | History | of the | Wonderful Things of Nature: | Set 

 forth in Ten severall Classes. | Wherein are contained | 



I. The Wonders of the Heav- 



ens. 



II. Of the Elements. 



III. Of Meteors. 



IV. Of Minerals. 

 V. Of Plants. 



f VI. Of Birds. 

 VII. Of Four-footed Beasts. 

 VIII. Of Insects, and things wanting 



blood. 



IX. Of Fishes. 

 X. Of Man. 



j j Written by Johannes Jonstonus. | And now Rendred into | English, | 

 by | A Person of Quality [John Rowland]. | | London, | Printed by John 

 Streater, living in Well- Yard near the Hospitall of | St. Bartholomew's the 

 Lesse, and are to be sold by the Book- | Sellers of London, 1657. 8. 8 11., 

 pp. 1-344. 



Classis ix, chap, iii, of the Whale and Barbel, pp. 290, 291. Chap, xi, of Manaty, nnd the 

 Whiting, pp. 296, 297. Chap, xii, of Mirus, Mola, and Monocoros, pp. 297-298. [81.] 



1658. "ROCHEFORT, C. DE. Histoire | Naturelle et morale | des | lies antilles | de 

 1'Amerique. | Enrichie de plusieurs belles figures des Raretez les plus | consi- 

 derables qui y sont dScrites. j Vvec vn Vocabulaire Cara'ibe. | [Dessin.] | 

 ARoterdam, | Chez Arnould Leers, | | M. DC. LVIII. 1 vol. 8 (orsrn. 4). 

 Engr. title, 8 prel. pp. incl. regular title, pp. 1-527, 6 11. (contents). 



This is the original ed. Not seen ; title from Coues, Bull 17. S. Oeol. and Oeogr. Surv. 

 Terr., v, no. 2, Sept. 6, 1879, p. 240. For Cetacean matter, etc., see second ed., 1665. Also, 

 the Dutch version, 1662. [82.] 



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