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AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 



Osbeck P. 



til 1752'. . . forattad af O. Toren &c.) 



Stockholm, 1757. vi, 376p. 12 pis. 8°. 



Pre-Linn. 1757.1 



16 epefcies of fishes are described. 

 For German and English versions of 1765 & 

 1771, see Osbeck, P. in vol. II. 



Oudenhoven, Jac. van. Out-Hol- 

 land nu Zuyt-Hollandt. Vervangende 

 een generale beschryvinge, mitsgaders 

 de privilegien, keuren, hantvesten, enz. 

 Dordrecht, 1654. 8°. Pre-Linn. 1654.1 



Contains considerable data on fish and fish- 

 eries, p. 28-34, 54, 275, 374. 



Ovid, (Publius Ovidius Naso) [43 

 B. C.-17 A. D.]. For a sketch of Ovid's 

 life and a list of works and editions, see 

 Owen, S. G. in Encyclopaedia Britan- 

 nica, 11th ed., 1911, vol. XX, 386-390. 



Opera. Rome & Bologna, 1471. 



Pre-Linn. 1471.1 



Two separate eds. Numerous other eds. 

 were published ante 1758, but only the follow- 

 ing will be listed here: Venice, 1474 (H. E. H.) ; 

 Milan, 1477. Parma, 1477 (H. E. H.); Vicenza, 

 1480 (H., S. C); Venice, 1486 (H. W.). 



Indexed in the Opera is: "Halieutica." This 

 poem is included among the works of Ovid, but 

 the authorship is attributed by some critics to 

 Gratius Faliscus. Names are given of 53 kinds 

 of fishes, and the list was published by Conrad 

 Gesner in 1556 at Zurich with attempted identi- 

 fications. Two editions may be listed here; the 

 second by Gesner. 



Halieuticon poematicum Ovidii 



Nasonis. Lugduni, 1535. 



Pre-Linn. 1535.1 



Halieuticon : hoc est, de piscibus 



libellus, multo quam antehac emenda- 

 tior et scholiis illustratus . . . per Con- 

 radum Gesnerum. Tiguri [Zurich], 

 1556. 8°. Pre-Linn. 1556.1 



*'A fragment of 134 hexameters, formerly 

 ascribed to Ovid, which will also be found in 

 'Gratii poetse . . . de venatione,' 1534 & 1537; 

 Lonicer, J. A. 'Venatus et aucupium,' 1582; 

 and Lemaire N. E. 'Bibliotheca classica La- 

 tina,' 1819, etc., vol. cxxxiv. It has been 

 critically examined by Theodor Birt, and pro- 

 nounced a thistle intruding among the poet's 

 flowers, in 'De halieuticis Ovidis poetae falso 

 adscriptis,' p. iv & 207. Berolini, 1878. 8°. 

 The verses are also contained in 'Halieutica 

 . . . ex recensione M. Hauptii.' Berlin, 1838." 

 — Westwood & Satchell. 



Oviedo y Valdez, Gonzalo Fernandez 

 de [1478-1557] For some account of 

 the man and his work:, see ]y[iail, L. C, 

 1912.1. 



Relacion sommario de la natu- 

 ral historia de las Indias. Toledo, 1525. 

 fol. Pre-Linn. 1525.1 



This, Oviedo's first work, was also issued in 

 Italian, Venice, 1535. A modern reprint is: 

 "Sumario de la natural historia de las Indias" 

 (In "Biblioteca de autores espafioles." Madrid. 

 1852, 22, 471-515.) 



Oviedo de la natural hysteria 



de las Indias, etc. Toledo, 1526. lij. 

 2 leaves, fol. Pre-Linn. 1526.1 



For an elaborate disquisition on this work, 

 see Harisse's "Bibl. Amer. Vet.," no. 139. See 

 also J. R. Bartlett's "Catalogue of John Carter 

 Brown's Library," and Ternaux's " Biblioth^que 

 Americaine," no. 35. The text of Oviedo has 

 been republished in Barcias' " Historiadores 

 Primitivos," vol. I, and in the "Bibliotheca de 

 Autores Espaiioles," vol. IV. An Italian ver- 

 sion is included in Ramusio, vol. Ill, p. 44-74, 

 and a summary in English will be found in 

 Purchas, vol. Ill, p. 970, etc. A modern Eng- 

 lish reprint was published by Edward Arber in 

 1885. Probably the best edition of Oviedo is: 



Historia general y natural de 



las Indias, islas y tierra firme del mar 

 oceano, per el Capitan Gonzalo Fer- 

 nandez de Oviedo y Vald^s, Sevilla, 

 1535. 4 leaves, i-cxciij. 



Pre-Linn. 1535.1 



Oviedo's excellent history passed through a 

 large number of editions and translations. Of 

 these, Spanish eds. are, Seville, 1535; Sala- 

 manca, 1541, & 1547 under the title "Coronica 

 de las Indias"; & Valladolid, 1557. In French, 

 eds. were issued at Paris, 1555 & 1556; in Ital- 

 ian, 1556, 1561, & 1606 in Ramusio's collec- 

 tions. 



Oviedo's "Historia natural" comprises 50 

 books. The "Sommario " of 1525 and the 

 t'Hystoria" of 1526 must be accounted as pre- 

 liminary issues. The Seville "Historia" of 

 1535 comprised 19 books, and the 20th, com- 

 pleting the first section of the general work, is 

 found in the Valladolid edition of 1557. The 

 complete work was first published by the Real 

 Academia de la Historia, Madrid, 1851-55. 4 

 vols. 4°. 



Oviedo lived for twenty years in America, 

 and his accounts of the fishes and other animals 

 of the New World are among the best written 

 at that time. His description of fishing with 

 the remora is by far the most circumstantial 

 and accurate of any of the early Spanish writers. 



Copies of nearly all of Oviedo's works and 

 editions are in N. Y. P. 



An early English version is: 



Certeyne notable thynges gath- 

 ered owte of G. F. Oviedus his book 

 entiteled the summarie of his generall 

 hystorie of the West Indies, by Richard 

 Eden. London, 1555. 4°. 



Pre-Linn. 1555.1 



Printed with Eden's version of Peter Mar- 

 tyr's "Decades," and like the latter reprinted 

 in Edward Arber's "The first three English 

 books on America." Birmingham, 1885. 



Ovington, John [fl. 1689-1698] A 

 voyage to Surratt, in the year 1689. 

 London, 1696. 606 p. Pre-Linn. 1696.1 



Fishes, p. 36, 45-49. Sleep of fish, p. 48. 

 Fish fed to cattle, p. 425. 

 A French version is: 



Voyages faits k Surate, etc. 2 



vols. 1725. xxiv, 323: 318 p. 12°. 



Pre-Linn. 1725.1 

 ^^ A Dutch edition appeared in 1729. The 

 Voyage" was also republished in Arkstee & 

 Merkus, "AUg. Hist. Reiseh," 1748, Bd. X. 



