6{jh BULLETIN UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. [Tol.Y. 



1633. De Laet, J. Novvs OrMs | sen | Descriptionis | Indite Occidentalis — Libri 



• XVIII. I Authore | loanne de Laet Antverp. | Novis Tabnlis Geograpliicis et 



variis I Animantium, Plantariim Fructnnmque | Iconibus illustrati. | Cvm 



Privilegio. | Lvgd. Batav. apud Elsevirios. A°. 1633. 1 vol. Folio. 16 



p. 11. iucl. half-title, eng. title, and list of (14) maps, pp. 1-690, 9 11. (index). 



1640. De Laet, J. L'Histoire | dv | Nouveau Monde | on | description | des Indes 

 Occidentales, | Coutenant dis-bnict Liures, | Par le Sieur lean de Laet, 

 d'Anners; | Enricbi de nouuelles Tables Geographiques & Fignres des | Ani- 

 inans, Plantes & Frnicts. | [Dessin.] | A Leyde, | Cbez Bonanenture & Abra- 

 ham Elseuiers, Imprimeuxs | ordinaires de l'Vuinersit6. | — | do loc XL. 1 

 vol. Folio. 14 p. 11., pp. 1-632, 6 11., 14 maps. 



"This French translation of Laet contains many materials not found in the original 

 Dutch, . . . This work is full of the most excellent and curious details of the natural 

 history, . . ." 



1682. NiEUHOF, J. Johan Nienhofs | Gedenkweerdige | Brasiliaense | Zee- en Lant- | 

 Reize. | Behelzende | Al het geen op dezelve is voorgevallen. | Beneffens | Een 

 bondige beschrijving van gantsch | Neerlants Brasil, | Zoo van lantschappen, 

 steden, dieresi, gewassen, als | draghten, zeden en godsdienst der inwoon- 

 ders: | En inzonderheit | Een wijtloopig verhael der merk^vaardigste voor- 

 vallen | en geschiedenissen, die zich, gednurende zijn negenjarigh | verblijf 

 in Brasil, in d'oorlogen en opstant der Portugesen | tegen d' onzen, zich sedert 

 het jaer 1640. tot 1649. | hebben toegedragen. | Doorgaens verciert met ver- 

 scheide af beeldingen, na 't leven aldaer getekent. | [Afbeeld.] | t' Amsterdam, 

 I — I Voor de Weduwe van Jacob van Meurs, op de Keizers-gracht. 1682. 

 1 vol. Folio. Eng. title, ilium, title, dedication, arms, j)rivilege, introduc- 

 tion, each one leaf; pp. 1-308, 2 11. (directions to binder, and index) ; 44 en- 

 gravings. 



See what is said anted, p. 241. In addition to this, tliere is on p. 281 a heading ' ' Indiaense en 

 Javaense vogels en viervoetige dieren "; under which descriptions of various East Indian and 

 particularly Javan birds run to p. 288, including two engravings on which the Dodo and 

 various other birds are figured. 



The above is the full printed title. The work is scarcely citable in the present connection, 

 being of a more general character. 



1724. [Labat, Fere 3. B.] Nouveau | Voyage | [du Pere Jean Baptiste Labat] | 

 aux Isles | de I'Amerique. | Contenant | L'Histoire Naturelle de ces Pays, | 

 I'Origine, les Mceurs, la Religion & le Gouvernement des | Habitans anciens 

 & modernes: | Les Guerres & les Evenemens singuliers qui y sont arrivez 

 liendant | le long s^jour que I'Auteur y a fait: | le Commerce et les Manufac- 

 tures I c[ui y sont stabiles, & les moyens de les augmenter. | Ouvrage enrichi 

 d'un grand nombre de Cartes, Plans, & Figures en Taille-douce. | Tome pre- 



mier [second]. | [Vignette.] | A la Haye, | Chez \ j yg^'pf,;^^. jj'. AlbertT" 

 &C Le Vier h^- I^CC. xxiv. 2 vols. 4to. Vol. I, 3 p.n.,pp. j-viij, 1-360, 

 211., 47 maps and plates. Vol. II, 4 p. 11., pp. 1-520, 9 11., many maps and 

 plates. 



There are many editions. Sabin's JBibl. gives the following, besides the above : — Paris, 6 

 vols., 12mo, 1722.— La Haye, 6 vols., 12mo, 1724.— Paris, 8 vols., 12mo, 1742; augmented.— Paris, 

 8vo, 1831; abridged. — Dutch, Amsterdam, 4 vols., 4to, 1725. — Latin, Niimberg, 7 vols., 12mo, 

 1782-88. 



The celebrated work is very full on the Natural History of the West Indies, and ornithol- 

 ogy comes in for its share of treatment ; but the copious details are so scattered through the 

 volumes that formal citation of the bird-matter becomes inconvenient. 



1745. AVarren, G. Impartial Description of Surinam, &c. 



The date of the original is said to be 1667. The only shape in which I have handled it is as 

 a part of Tol. H of Osborne's "A Collection of Voyages and Travels", etc., folio, London, 

 1745, where it is given with a half-title-page as follows : — An impartial | Description [ of | Sur- 

 inam i uxjon the | Continent of Guinea | in ] America. | With a [ History of several strange 



