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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FISHES 



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Reise . . . auf dem Amazon- 



flusse, (1639-40) (In Arkstee, , & 



Merkus, , AUgemeine Historie der 



Reisen, etc., 1758, vol. XVI. 4°.) 



Pre-Linn. 1758.1 



Acufia's work is available for English readers 

 in the Hakluyt Society reprint, in Works, no. 

 24 for 1859: "A new discovery of the great river 

 of the Amazons, 1639. etc." In this see — 

 Methods of fishing used by the Indians, de- 

 scription of the paraque or electric eel, etc. 



Adanson, Michel [1727-1806] His- 

 toire naturelle du Sln6gal. Coquillages. 

 Avec une relation abregSe d'un voyage 

 fait en ce pays, pendant les annfies 

 1749-1753. Paris, 1757, viii, 190; 

 xcvi, 275 p. 19 pis. map. 4°. 



Pre-Linn. 1749.1 



Contains a reference to the electric catfish, 

 Malopterunis (p. 134). 



Translated into English as: 



Voyage to Senegal, the Isle of Goree, and the 

 river Gambia. London, 1759. S°. 



There are German translations by Martinus, 

 Brandenburg, 1773, and by Schreber at Halle 

 in the same year. 



Ad-Damiri, Imdm Kamdl-ad-dtn 

 [1341 or 49-1405] Hayat al-Hayawan. 

 [MS. c. 1372] Pre-Linn. 1372.1 



This Arabic natural history lexicon was com- 

 posed by the author while professor in the Uni- 

 versity of Al-Azhar at Cairo. It was first printed 

 in Arabic at Cairo, 1858; reprinted Cairo, 1867, 

 1887, & in 3 other issues before 1903. An illus- 

 trated edition (in Persian?) has been issued at 

 Teheran, and a version, presumably in Tm*k- 

 iah, at Constantinople. It is most available 

 as: 



Ad-Damlrl's Hayat al-Hayawan. (A zoologi- 

 cal lexicon.) Translated from the Arabic by 

 A. S. G. Jayakar. 2 vols. London & Bombay, 

 1906-08. 



2nd vol. in 2 parts. Each vol. and part paged 

 separately. 



For reference to fishes, see indices. 



.Slfric (Archbishop of Canterbury) 

 [955 — C.1020] Colloquium [Latine et 

 Saxonicei . . . ab ^Krico primum 

 compilatum, etc. [MS. c. 990]. 



Pre-Linn. 990.1 



The oldest English treatise on fishing is con- 

 tained in this work. 



The original, a MS. of the 10th century, is m 

 the Cottonian collection of the British Museum. 

 Reproduced in Thorpe, B., "Analecta anglo- 

 saxonica," 1834, p. 101-118, and 1846, pp. 18-36. 

 See also Wright, Thomas, "A volume of vocabu- 

 laries," etc., 1857. 



For an English translation, with many 

 valuable notes on the names of the fishes men- 

 tioned, see Prof. W. W. Skeat in the "Angler's 

 note-book," 1880, pp. 76-77; 155-156; 168- 

 170. 



jElian, Claudius \fl. c. 120 A. D.j 

 Ex .a)liani historia per Petrum Gyllium 

 latini facti, itemque ex Porphyrio, He- 

 liodoro, Oppiano, turn eodern, Gyllio lu- 

 culentis accessionibus aucti libri xvi, 



de vi et natura animalium. Ejusdem 

 Gyllii liber unus, de Gallicis et Latinis 

 nominibus piscium. Lugduni, 1633. 

 28, 589 p. 4°. 



Pre-Linn. 1533.1 



Pisces, lib. xi-xiii. 



An exceedingly rare and very beautiful edi- 

 tion of this famous work. Other pre-Linntean 

 editions are: Rome, 1535 or 1545; Zurich, 1555 

 or 1556; Lyons, 1635 & 1562; Lugduni, 1611; 

 Geneva & Cologne (Gesner & Gilles eds.), 1616 ; 

 Basel, 1750; London, 1744 — given below. 



De natura animalium, libri xvii. 



Cum animadversionibus C. Gesneri et 

 D. W. Trilleri. Curante Abr. Gronoyio 

 (Text in Greek and Latin] Londini, 

 1744. 4°. Pre-Linn. 1744.1 



Of modern editions the best are: 



^liani de natura animaliimi libri xvil. 

 Grseca et Latine cum priorum interpretum et 

 suis animadversionibus edidit J. G. Schneider. 

 2 vols, [in 1] Lipsise, 1784. 



^liani de natma animalium libri septemdecim. 

 Verba ad fidem hbrorum manusoriptorum con- 

 stituit et annotationibus illustravit F. Jacobs. 

 Intextae sunt curse secundse postumse J. G. 

 Schneider! .... Adjecti indices et interpre- 

 tatio Latina Gesneri a Gronovio emendata 

 (. . . Cum addendis et conjuncturis ineditifl 

 J. J. Reiskii). 2 vols. Jena, 1832. 8°. 



Vol. I contains the Greek text, followed by 

 the Latin translation, which has a distinct pagi- 

 nation; vol. II contains the notes. 



There is also a later edition published at 

 Paris by Didot in 1858. 



vElian is the first, and indeed the only writer 

 among the ancients who. mentions the use of 

 the artificial fly in fishing for trout. See book 

 XV of his history. 



Agrippa, Heinrich Cornelius [1486- 

 1535] Henrie Cornelius Agrippa, of 

 the vanitie and uncertaintie of artea 

 and sciences. Englished by Ja. Sam. 

 Gent., etc. London, 1569. 4°. 



Pre-Linn. 1569.1 



Chapter Lxxvi of this caustic satire on the 

 kinds of learning in vogue in Agrippa's age is 

 "Of fishing": "The study of fishing was m 

 time past emonge the Romaines in so greats 

 price, and estimation that they did sow in the 

 Itahan sea, as it were come in the ground. . . . 

 Furthermore with great costs they made great 

 fishe pooles and pondes full of most pretious 

 fishes, etc." 



Aitzema, Lieuwe van [1600-1669] 

 Saken van Staet en Oorlogh, in, ends 

 omtrent de Vereenigde Nederlanden 

 (1621-1669). 's Gravenhage [The 

 Hague], 1669. 6 parts fol. 



Pre-Linn. 1669.1 



Contains considerable data about herring fish- 

 eries. 



Albertinus, ^gidius. Der Welt 

 Tummel: und Schauplatz, sampt der 

 bitter-stissen Warheit. Darinn mit Ein- 

 ftihrung viler schoner imd furtrefflicher 

 Discursen nit allein die nattirliche, 

 sondern auch moralische und sittliche 



