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AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 



BOO 



Boodt, Anselm Boethius de [1550- 

 1634] Gemmarum et lapidum historia. 

 Hanoviae, 1609. figs. 4°. 



Pre-Linn. 1609.1 



Glossopetras, liber rv, p. 301 & 343. 



Other eds.: Bruges, 1609; Lugduni Batavo- 

 rum (edited by A. Tollius) 1636 & 1647; Lyon, 

 1644. A French ed. is entitled: 



Le parfaict joaillier ou histoire 



des pierreries ■ [annotated by Andr6 

 Toll] Lyon, 1649. ills. 



Pre-Linn. 1649.1 



De la Glossonetra, etc., p. 435-437. 

 Copy, N. Y. P. 



Bordone, Benedetto. Isolario. 1527. 

 Pre-Linn. 1527.1 



Some West Indian fishes are mentioned. 



See also Santa Cruz, "El yslario general de 

 todas las yslas del mundo," written c. 1544, and 

 edited by Franz R. von Wiesel, in his "Karten 

 von Amerika." Innsbruck, 1908. 



Libro di Benedetto Bordone nel 



qual si ragiona de tutte I'isole del mondo 



con li lor nomi antiohi & moderni, his- 



torie, favole, & modi del loro vivere, & 



in qua! parte del mare stanno, & in qual 



parallelo & clima giacoiono. Venice, 



1528. 83 leaves. Pre-Linn. 1528.1 



Other eds.: Venice, 1534, 1537, 1547. These 

 & 1528 ed. in J. C. B. 



Borelli, Giovanni Alphonso [1608- 

 1679] Philosophia de motu animalium 

 ex principio mechanico-statico. 2 vols. 

 Romse, 1680-1682. 168 p. figs. 4°. 



Pre-Linn. 1680.1 



Borelli studied the mechanism of swimming 

 and determined the function of the swim 

 bladder. 



Other eds. are: Leyden, 1685, 1710, 1711; 

 Naples, 1734; The Hague, 1742 & 1743. The 

 full title of the latter is: 



De motu animalium. Edit. 



nova, ac dissertationibus physico-mech. 

 de motu musculosum etc. J. BernouUy 

 aucta et ornata. 2 parts. Hagse, 1743, 

 222, 18 & X, 270, 14 p. 20 pis. 



Pre-Linn. 1743.1 



Borrich, Olaus [1626 or 27-1690] De 

 aci marini anatome [Belone vulgaris] 

 Acta. Med. Phil. Hafnien. (Bartholini), 

 1673 (1675), 2, 149-151. 



Pre-Linn. 1675.1 



Reprinted in Valentini, M. B. "Amphitheat- 

 rum Zootomicum." 1720, pt. 2, p. 119. 



- Original not seen. Agassiz assigns this title 

 to JacobffiUB, O. (Pre-Linn. 1676.1); Carus & 

 Engelmann, to Borrich, O; while both Wal- 

 baum & Gronovius list it under both authors. 



Bosnian, Willem. Nauwkeurige be- 



schryving van de Guinese Goud-Tand- 



en Slave-kust, etc. 2 vols, [in li Tra- 



jecti, 1704. xxvi, 208, 280 p. illust. 4°. 



Pre-Linn. 1704.1 



Other eds.: Dutch, Amsterdam, 1709, 1718, 

 & 1737; Italian, Venice, 1752-54. Titles of 

 known foreign versions follow. 



A new description of the coast 



of Guinea . . . written originally in 

 Dutch . . . and now faithfully done 

 into Enghsh, etc. London, 1705. viii, 

 493 p. 7 pis. map. 8°. 



Pre-Linn. 1705.1 



A second English ed. was issued in 1721. 

 Bosnian's work is also reprinted in Pinkerton's 

 "Collection of voyages." 1814, vol. XVI. 



Voyage en Guin^e, contenant 



une description de cette cote, des ani- 

 maux, des oiseaux, des poissons, etc. 

 Utrecht, 1705. pis. 8°. 



Pre-Linn. 1705.2 



Reyse nach Guinea, etc. Ham- 

 burg, 1708. xii, 590 p. 4 pis. 



Pre-Linn. 1708.1 



Bossche, Gulielmus van den. Histo- 

 ria medica, in qua libris iv animalium 

 natura et eorum medica utilitas exacte 

 et luculenter traotantur. Bruxellse, 

 1639. xiv, 434, 20 p. ills. 4°. 



Pre-Linn. 1639.1 



Fishes, p. 319-386. 



Bossman, Wilhelm. See Bosnian, 



Willem. 



Bossow, P. Qusestiones juris de ve- 

 natione, aueupio et piscatione. Basle, 

 1618. 4°. Pre-Linn. 1618.1 



Boucher, P. Histoire v&itable et 

 naturelle des moeurs et productions 

 du pays de la Nouvelle France; vul- 

 gairement dite le Canada. Paris, 1664. 

 xxiv, 168 p. ills. 12°. 



Pre-Linn. 1664.1 



Names are given of the fishes which are 

 found in the St. Lawrence, and in the lakes 

 and rivers tributary to it. 



. Boussuet, Francisciis [1520-1572] De 

 natura aquatilium carmen in universam 

 Gulielmi Rondeletii, quam de piscibus 

 marinis scripsit historiam; cum vivis 

 eorum imaginibus. Opusculum nunc 

 primum in luce emissum. Lugduni, 

 Gallorum, 1558. 240 p. ills. 4°. 



Pre-Linn. 1558.1 



— — • De natura aquatilium carmen, 

 in alteram partem G. Rondeletii de 

 aquatUibus historiae. Lugduni, 1558, 

 135 p. ills. 4°. Pre-Linn. 1558.2 



These rare works form a pictorial history of 

 fishes. Rondelet's figures are used and each has 

 beneath it a short Latin verse in epigrammatic 

 form describing the fish. Tney are generally 

 bound together, but each has its own title page 

 and separate pagination. 



