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1678. "EXQUEMELIN, ALEXANDRE OLIVIER. Continued. 



Anno 1678. | 4. 2 titles, 1 of which is engraved, 21., pp. 186', 4 portraits, 6 

 copper-plates, and 2 maps." 



"First edition, of extreme rarity. Perhaps no book in any language was ever the parent of 

 so many imitations, and the source of so many fictions, as this, the original of the buccaneers 

 of America. . . . ' There is certainly no other book of that time which experienced a popu- 

 larity similar to that of the "Buccaniers of America," which was, in the ten years following 

 its publication, translated into most of the European languages; and there is a fact most curi- 

 ous in the literary history of all times, that the original was certainly unknown to all trans- 

 lators but one. They were all inclined to take the Spanish edition for the original ; nay, even 

 the learned editors of Mr. Grenville's catalogue seem doubtful whether the Dutch edition 

 existed in print, or in MS. only.' " 



Not seen; title and comment from Sabin, Bibl. Amer., vi, pp. 309, 310, no. 23468. There is 

 alater "very much altered" Dutch edition, 4, Amsterdam, 1700; a German, 12, Nurnberr, 

 1679; a Spanish, 4, 1681, "translated from the [first] Dutch"; also, later Spanish editions. 

 The first French edition, "of extreme rarity," was published in 2 vols., 12, Paris, 1686, "a 

 translation from the English"; a second French, by the same publishers, in 1688; the colla- 

 tion of two later French editions (1744 and 1774, q. v.) is given infrci. Three English versions 

 (one said to be an abridgment), translated from the Spanish, appeared in 1684 (q. v.), with 

 several later editions, and possibly other translations into English. (See Sabin, Bibl. Amer., 

 vi, pp. 309-318, 328, nos. 23468-23494.) 



I have examined the following editions, the collation of which is given by Sabin (op. eit.) : 

 4, Spanish (translated from the English), 1631 (no. 23471 of Sabin), in which the account of 

 the "Manentines" occurs at pp. 294, 295 (1^ pp. general account of external characters, qual- 

 ity of flesh, habits, and mode of capture, with no figure); 12, Spanish, "Impression Se- 

 gunda," 1682 (no. 23473 of Sabin) ; account of the "Manentines" at pp. 438-440, and the same 

 as that of the 4 edition of 1681 ; no figure. Dutch, 4, 1700 (no. 23469 of Sabin) ; account of 

 the "Zee-Koe" at pp. 131, 132 of Deel 1, substantially the same as the Spanish; no figure. 

 English, "The Third Edition," 1704 (no. 23485 of Sabin) ; account of the "Sea-Cows" at pp. 

 160-162 (8 lines less than one page in length, and substantially the same as the Spanish). En- 

 glish, "The Fifth Edition," 1771 (no. 23490 of Sabin); account of the "Manentine," or "Sea- 

 Cow," at pp. 209, 210, of vol. i. In none of the editions above cited is there any figure of the 

 animal. French, 12, 1744 (q. v.), and 1774 (g. v.). The accounts of the Manatee in these two 

 French editions is entirely different from that of the Spanish, Dutch, and English editions 

 just cited; besides being twice as long, and containing much new matter, there is an (appar- 

 ently) original figure. [114.] 



1678. MAJOR, JOHANN DANIEL. ' De Respiratione Phocamse vel Tursionis. <^Ephem. 



Med.-phys. Germ Acad. Nat. Curios., 1677 (1678), pp. 4, 5. [H5-] 



1678. PAULLINUS, CHRISTIANUS FRANCISCUS. De Singular! Monstro Marino. <^Ephem. 



Med.-phys. Germ. Acad. Nat. Curios., 1677 (1678), pp. 79, 80. [lie.] 



1678. "ScuoLTZ, ADAM SIGISM. Cerebrum Orcae vulgari supposita Spermatis Ceti 



larva develatuin. Lipsiae, 1678. 4. 11. 12." 



!Not seen ; title from Carus and Engelmann. [117.] 



1680. LYSER, POLYC. Disputatio physico-philologica de Cetis. Lipsiae, 1680. 4. 



pp. 20. 



Not seen; title at second-hand. [118.] 



1681. BLASIUS, G. Gerardi Blasii | Amstelrsedamensis, | Medic. Doct. & Prof. Ordin. 



| Anatome | Aniinalium, | Terrestrium variorum, Volatilium, Aquatilium, | 

 Serpentum, Insectorum, Ovorumque, | structuram naturalem | Ex Veterum, 

 Recentioruin, propriisque Observationibus | proponens, | Figuris variis illus- 

 trata. | [Vignette.] Amstelodami, | Sumptibus Viduse Joannis a Someren, | 

 Henrici & Viduse Theodori Boom. | | do loc L xxxi. 4. 11. 3, pp. 1-494, 

 pll. i-lx. 



Cap. xvi. De Phocena s. Delphino septentrionalium, pp. 286-290, pi. li (animal, skull, 

 lower jaw, scapula, pectoral limb, ear bones, tail, etc. = 8 figg). 



Cap. xxxv. De Tursione, pp. 306, 307. [119. ] 



1681. GREW, N. Musseurn Regalis Societatis. | Or a | Catalogue & Description | Of 

 the Natural and Artificial | Rarities | Belonging to the | Royal Society | And 

 preserved at | Gresham Colledge. | Made | By Nehemjah Grew, M. D. Fellow 

 of the Royal Society, | and of the Colledge of Physitians. | | Whereunto is 

 Subjoyned the | Comparative Anatomy | of | Stomachs and Guts. | | By the 



