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COT 



Cotton, C. 



The universal angler, made so, by three 

 books of fishing. The first by Mr. Izaak Wal- 

 ton; the second by Charles Cotton Esq.; the 

 third by Col. Robert Venables. All which may 

 be bound together, or sold each of them severally. 

 I,ondon, 1676. 8°. 



Cotton's section of this was sold separately 

 or conjointly with Walton and Venables. From 

 this time on, the work was known as Walton & 

 Cotton's "Compleat angler." For further in- 

 formation as to editions, see Walton, Izaak 

 (this section). For post-Linnaean editions, see 

 Walton, I., 1759.1, and Walton, I. & Cotton, 

 C, 1893.1. 



Cotton, Charles, & Walton, Izaac. 

 See Walton & Cotton. 



Cousin, Jo., & Le Vasseur, Clavd. 

 Ergo pisces oarnibus salubriores. Paris, 

 1637. Pre-Linn. 1637.1 



2nd ed.: Paris, 1661. 



Cox, Nicholas. The gentleman's 

 recreation, in four parts; (viz.) hunting, 

 hawking, fowling, fishing. Collected 

 from ancient and modern authors for- 

 rein a,nd domestick, and rectified by the 

 experience of the most skilfull artists of 

 these times. London, 1674. x, 284 p. 

 4 pis. 8°. Pre-Linn. 1674.1 



"In this edition the book is not claimed by 

 Nicholas Cox, whose name is appended to the 

 'Epistle Dedicatory,* in the second and subse- 

 quent issues." W. & S. 



Cox's book was reviewed in Phil. Trans. Roy. 

 Soc, 1675, 10, 461-466. Other eds. are: 1677, 

 1685, 1686, 1697, 1706, 1721, 1731. 



Copy 1677 ed.. N. Y. P. 



This is most accessible to the modern reader 

 in the following form: 



The nobleman and gentleman's recreation; 

 viz. The fowler. The falconer. The fisherman. 

 The huntsman. London, (1815?). 8°. 



This was again republished — subsequent to 

 1836. 



Coyett, Balthazar. Poissons 6cre- 

 visses et crabes . . . que I'on trouve 

 autour des lies Moluques, et sur les 

 cotes desterresaustrales: . . . Guvrage 

 . . . copie sur les originaux de M. B. 

 Coyett, etc. Tome I. Amsterdam, 

 1718-1719. fol. Pre-Linn. 1718.1 



See note under Renard, L., this section. 



Cramer, Abia Georg (respond.) Dis- 

 sertatio de pisce Torpedine ej usque 

 proprietatibus admirandis exhibens. In- 

 aug. Dissert. Kiloni, 1710. 



Pre-Linn. 1710.1 



Johann Ludwig Hannemann, pr(Eses. 



Crescentiis, or Crescenze, Pietro 

 de [1230-1310] For a life of this author, 

 see that in the modern edition of his 

 works in footnote below. 



Ruralium commodorum libri 



duodecim finiunt felioiter. Augustinum 



[Augsburg], 1471. 209 unpaged leaves. 



Pre-Linn. 1471.1 



The first edition (black letter) of a work sup- 

 posed to have been written early in the 14th 

 century. It has been frequently reprinted and 

 translated. John of Westphalia printed three 

 editions at Louvain, one in 1473. 



Versions in various languages follow. 



II libro della agricoltura. Flo- 



rentise, 1478. Pre-Linn. 1478.1 



The earliest Italian version, which was re- 

 printed at Vicenza, 1490, and several times at 

 Venice. 



Le liure des prouffits cham- 



pestres et ruraulx. Paris, 1486. fol. 



Pre-Linn. 1486.1 



The first of many French versions, another 

 being "Le bon manager," Paris, 1533. fol. 



■ Trattato dell' agricoltura vol- 



garizato, etc. Venice, 1511. 



Pre-Linn. 1511.1 



The 1st Italian version issued at Venice. 

 Others are: 1519, 1534 (" Opera di Agricoltura"), 

 1536, 1561 & 1605. A German version was pub- 

 lished at Strassburg, 1493, and was many times 

 reissued. 



De omnibus agriculturse parti- 

 bus & de plantarum animaliumque, etc. 

 Basel, 1548. xii, 385 p. figs. 



Pre-Linn. 1548.1 



An earlier Latin ed. : Paris & Strassburg, 1486. 



A modern edition, to which is appended a 

 sketch of Crescentiis and an estimate of hia 

 work, is: "Trattato della agricoltura . . . 

 Translate nella fevella Fiorentina revisto dallo' 

 Uferigno [B. de' Rossi] (Vita di P. Crescenzi — 

 Osservazione sopra lo scritto di P. Crescenzi) 

 3 vols. Milano, 1805." 



Crescenze indicates the various methods of 

 rendering ponds and inland lakes profitable. 

 He is one of the "old farmers" discussed by 

 Donald G. Mitchell in his "Wet days at Edge- 

 wood." (See Mitchell, D. G., 1865.1) 



Copies of 14th cent. eds. of the above work 

 in H., N. Y. S., & A. P. S. 



Crescentio, Bartholomeo. Nautiea 

 Mediterranea. Roma, 1607. fol. 



Pre-Linn. 1607.1 



Remora as a ship-detainer, pp. 397-398. 



Crescenze, Pietro de. See Crescen- 

 tiis, Pietro de. 



Cube or Cuba or Caub, Johann von. 

 For an analysis of the " Hortus " and a 

 critical study of its authorship, see 

 Choulant, Ludwig. " Graphische In- 

 cunabeln f iir Naturgeschiohte und Medi- 

 cin . . . des XV und XVI Jahrhun- 

 derts." Leipzig, 1858, pp. 20-75. 

 Choulant calls the " Hortus," " das 

 wiohtigste Naturhistorie des Mittel- 

 alters mit Abbildungen." See also 

 Payne, J. F. "On the Herbarius and 

 Hortus Sanitatis." Trans. Bibliog. 

 Soc. London, 1901, 6, 70 p. illust. 

 4°. [Payne argues that Cube was not 

 the author of the " Hortus "i 



