Allen's bibliography of cetacea and sirenia. 417 



1652. Anon. ''De Vrye Zee, aengaede haere vrylieyt in 't varenen visscben voordc 

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

 derheyt teglien die hedendaeclisclie Regeringe in Engeland. [Jy^o place.] 

 1652. 4°." 



"Pp. 55-62 treat of the Herring- and "WTiale-fisliery and the pretensions of the English on 

 Greenland and Spitzbergen." 



Not seen; title and comment from Fr. Muller, Oat. Amer. Books, 1877, p. 200, no. 3424. 



[77.] 



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

 especially of those |. Provinces wliicli are under | the Dominion of the | King of 

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

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

 1655. sm. 8° by sig. 11. 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. | Seu | Historia | Rerum Rariorum, 

 Tam Naturalium, quam Artificialium, tam Domesticarum, | quam Exoticarum, 

 qufB Hafnise Danorum in | asdibus Authoris servantur. | Adornata ab | Olao 

 Worm, med. doct. | &, in Regi4 Hafniensi Academia, olim | Professore pub- 

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

 A^orum, I Apud Johannem Elsevirivm, Acad. Typograph. | — | CIq IqC LV. 

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



Cap. xiii, De Cetis, pp. 279, 280; cap. xiv, De Ceto dentate, Balenfl,, Monocerote, pp. 280- 

 287; cap. XT, De Delphino, Pristi, PhocA, Kosmaro, pp. 288-290. SkuU 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 "Specvlnm regale," numbering 22 species. (C/. Eschricht and 

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

 cea," Eay 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. et Fiscal., p. 157, no. 2477. [80.] 



1657. JONSTON, John. 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. 

 in. Of Meteors. 

 IV. Of Minerals. 

 V. Of Plants. 



>< 



' VL Of Birds. 

 VII. Of Four-footed Beasts. 

 VIII. Of Insects, and things wanting 

 blood. 

 IX. Of Fishes. 

 L X. Of Man. 



1 — I Written by Johannes Jonstonus. | And now Rendred into | English, | 

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

 Streater, living in Well- Yard near the Hospital] 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, and the 

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



1658. "RoCHEFORT, C. DE. Histoire | Naturelle et morale | des | lies autilles | de 

 I'Amerique. | Enrichie de plusieurs belles figures des Raretez les ]ilus | consi- 

 derables qui y sont ddcrites. | Vvec vn Vocabulaire Caraibe. | [Dessin.] | 

 ARoterdam, | Chez Arnould Leers, | — | M. DC. LVIII. 1 vol. 8° (orsm. 4^). 

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



This is the original ed. Not seen ; title from Coaes, Bull. JJ. S. Geol. and Oeogr. Surr. 

 Terr., v, no. 2, Sept. 0, 1879, p. 240. For Cetacean matter, etc., see second ed., 16C5. Also, 

 the Dutch version, 1062. [82.] 



27 G B 



