Allen's bibliography of cetacea and sirenia. 401 



Great care has been taken to make tlie transcription of titles strictly 

 literal, iuterpolations or emendations being inclosed in brackets. 

 Errors of transcription can, nevertheless, scarcely be otherwise than 

 frequent, as every bibliographer must be well aware. The orthography 

 and capitalization of scientific names are intended to be literal, or in 

 accordance with the usage of the particular work under notice, from 

 which, however, there are doubtless occasional lapses. The attempt 

 has been made to bring the "List" down to the end of the year 1880, 

 but a few later titles have been added, and there are doubtless many 

 deficiencies for the last year of the record. 



Museum of Co3iparative Zoology, 



Ccnnbridgej Blass., September, 1881. 



1495. Albertus Magnus. Diui Albert! Magni dc Animalibus | libri vigintisex Novis- 

 simo Impressi. [First page.] fol. 11. 6, ft'. 1-2.54. 



ImpressnmUenetijs per Joaunem & Gregorium | de Gregorijs fratres. Anno 

 incarnationis dominice | Millesimo quadringentesimo nonagesimo quinto ( die, 

 xxi.Maij. Regnanteduo AugustinoBarbadico | inclitoDuceUenetiai^ [f. 2.54]. 



Cetus, f. 240 ; Delpliinus, f. 241 ; Mouoceios, f. 244. The interest attaching to the cetologi- 

 cal matter is purely historic. [1.] 



1510. Andrew, Laor. "The wonderful shape and nature of man, beastes, serpentes, 

 fowles, tishes, and monsters, translated out of divers authors by L. Andrew 

 of Calis, and printed at Antuerpe, by John Doesborow. (Doesborch, 1510.) 

 fol. With pictures." 



Kot seen; title from Bosgoed, op. cit., p. 2, no. 10. [2.] 



1526. OviEDO, G. F. DE. Ouiedo dela natural by | storia delas Indias. | Con preuile- 

 gio dela | S. C. C. M. | [Por Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Yaldes. Toledo. 

 1526.] 4°. ff. i-lij+3 pp. 



Delos manaties, f. xlviij (30 lines). The account of the Manatee here given is brief in com- 

 parison with that in the Hist. gen. Ind., 1535, q. v. [3.] 



1533. Martyr, P. Petri Martyris | ab Angleria mediolanen. Oratoris | clarissimi, 

 Fernandi & Helisabeth Hispaniarum quondam rcgum | a consilijs, de rebus 

 Oceanis & Orbe uouo decades tres: quibus | quiequid de inuentis nnper terris 

 traditum, nouarum rerum cupi- | dum lectorem retinere possit, copiose, fideli- 

 ter, eruditiqi docetur. | Eivsdem praeterea | Legationis Babylonicae li [ bri 

 tres: vbi praeter orator! i ravneris | pulcherrimum exemplum, etiam quiequid 

 in iiariarum gentium mori- | bus & institutis insigniter preclarum nidit queqi 

 terra mariqi accideruut, | omnia lectu mir5 iucuuda, genere dicendi politis- 

 simo traduntur. | [Design.] Basilcae, | — | M. D. XXXIII. | fol. 11. 12, ff. 

 1-92. 



Manati, f. CO, C, D. [4.1 



1535. Oviedo, G. F. de. La historia general | delas Indias. | [Por Gonzalo Fernan- 

 dez de Oviedo y Valdcs.] Con priuilegio imperial. [Sevilla, 1535.] | 4^^. 

 11. 4, ft", i-cxciij. 



Capitulo X. Del ilanati y de su grandcza & forma : & de la nianera que algunas vezes los 

 indios tomauan este grade animal conel pese reuerso : & otras particuhiridadcs. If. cvj-cviij. fig. 

 The account occupies 5 pp., and is important as the source whence many later compilers 

 drew their materials for the history of the Manatee, and is still historically of the highest in. 

 terest. There is a sm.ill, very rude cut, bearing some likeness to the general form of tho 

 Manatee — tho earliest figure of tiie animal published. In the edition of 1547 the text (ff. cvj- 

 cvijj) is the same as in the present, but the figure is slightly different, showing an attempt at 

 artistic improvement. [S.\ 



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