Allen's bibliography of cetacea and sirenia. 407 



1598 (circa). Anox. ? "Eeno besclarijvinglie dcs grooten Vischs, clio tot Bcrklicy ghe- 

 strandct is A". 1598 den 2 Fcbr., met ccuo verclaringlio der dinghen die 

 daeriiaer ghevolght ziju. Met noch cen cort verhael, enz. (Znd. pi. of jaar.)" 



"Met oeno af bedding van den walvisch op den titol. 



"Zie: TiELE, Jiibl. vanpamjletten, no. 4^1— Bou, Ned. Oorl, (1697), iv, f.434; (1021), 35«boek, 

 f. 11." 



Kot seen ; title and comment from Bosgocd, I. c, p. 175, no. 2759. [31.] 



1598 (circa). Matiiam, J. "Walvisch, gestraud tussclicu Sclioveningeu en Katwijk in 

 1598. Door J. Matham, met 12 regelig hollandsch vers. — Van dezo prcnt bestaaa 

 verschillonde kopyen, o. a. door G. van der Gouwen. br. fol." 



Not seen; title from Bosgoed, o^j. ci<.,p. 176, no. 2773, who says: Zio: Mailer, Ilistorio- 

 prenten, no. 1081-1084." 



(Muller's Beschrijv. van Ned. historieprenten, hero and elsewhere cited from Boagoed, I have 

 been unable to see.) [32.] 



1599. "Olaus Magxus. Do wonderlycke liistorie der Noorderache Landen, be- 

 sclireven door Olaus do Groote. Ook after aen by ghevoecht vcrsclieydeu 

 waerachtige Nauigaticn tegeut Nooi'deu ghedaen by onsen tyt, als op Nova- 

 Zembla, Groenlaut en door do Strate van Nassouwen andors Weygats gbe- 

 naemt. Amsterdam, Cornelis Clacsz." (1599.) 4°. 



" Zie aUlaar, 21e en 22e boeli : Van de visschcn ; van do vrecmdo en gedrochtelijke visachen, 

 en -walvischvangst. De appendix bevat de reizen naar het Noorden van St. Burrough, Fro- 

 bisher. Pet and Jackman, en de drie eersten reizen der Hollanders. De 2e druk, 10.52, 8°, 

 bevat tevena 'Een korte en klare beschrijving van Ijslandt en Groenlandt,' door Dithmarius 

 Blefkenins." 



Not seen; title and comment from Bosgoed, op. cit., p. 244, no. 3520. See, also, Latin ed. 

 of 1555. [33. 1 



1599. The request of an honest merchant to a friend of his, to be aduised 



and directed in the course of killing the Whale, as followeth. An. 1575. 

 <Cna]clii]it's Xavig. and Voyag., i, 1599, pp. 413, 414. 



A series of questions respecting the provisioning and furnishing of a ship for a whaling 

 voyage, with detailed answers, "which may soruo aa directions for all such as shall intend 

 the same voyage, or the like, for the Whale." [34.] 



1601. Saexredam, J. "Walvisch, gestraud onder Beverwyk, bezichtigd door Graaf 



Ernst Casimir, 1601. Door J. Saenredam. (Met 32 regelig latijusch vers door 



T. Screvelius.)" gr.br. fol. 



"DezeKde prent met het adres van J. Janssonius, 1618. gr. hr. fol." 



Not seen ; title and comment from Bosgoed, op. oil., p. 176, no. 2774, who refers to "Muller, 



Historieprenten, no. 1160." [35.] 



1602. [AcosTA, J. DE.] De Novi Orbis Natvra et Ratione. <^De Bnj, America} nona 4' 



j)Ostrcma Pars, li^02, pp. 1-3(32. 



Do diuersis generibus & formis piaciuui, in India nascentium, lib. iii, cap. xv, pp. 103-109. 



For comment see orig. ed., 1590, and next title. [36.] 



1602. De Buy, Theodorus, J. T., et J. I. Id;ea | vera et genvina, | PriBcipvarvni 

 Historia- | rvm omuivm, vt et variorvm | Ritvvm, Ceremoniarvm, consve- 

 tvdi- I numcjue gentis ladica) : Sicut & primariura ciuitatum, Insularura- | que 

 & arcium sou propugnacnloruni : de quibus in hac | nona Americie sou ludiai 

 Occidcutalis histo- | riarum parte pertractatur. ( Cvilibet Historicoe desigua- 

 tioni, I facilioris intellectus, raaiorisij oblectationis causa, Icones ali- | quani- 

 mult;e, artificiosissimc in a'S incisa'., annexaj | appositaM^i sunt, | Sumptibus, 

 Studio & iudustria | Theodori de Bry, p. m. relicta' vidu;B, & loanu. Theo- 

 do- I ri ac loanu. Israel, filiorum. | [Design.] Francofvrti, | Excvdebat 

 Matthtcvs Becker. | — | M.DCII. fol. Tab. i-xxvi, cum texte. 



T.ab. i. Do Indoi'vni mira piscationis ratione. Plato and 15 lines of text, illustrating the 

 way in which the Indiana capture whales, viz, by rowing up to them in their canoes and get- 

 ting astride the neck and then driving wooden atakea into their blow-holes, which speedily 

 causes their death by sutfocation. They then att.ich lines to the stakes and tow the dead 

 whale ashore. In tlie background is seen a dead whale being thus towed by an Indian iu ii 

 canoe, and more in the foreground is an Indian astride a whale driving in the stakes, his conoo 

 resting on the whale's back I The blow-holes are represented, as in other cuts of this date, 



