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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PISHES 



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De le meravegliose cose del 



mondo. Venice, 1496. 8°. 



Pre-Linn. 1496.1 



The 1st Italian ed. Other imperfect or pre- 

 liminary Italian eds. are known. The editio 

 princeps (in Latin) was printed at Basel or 

 Venice between the years 14S4 and 1490. 



Copies 1496 ed., B. A.; 1496 & 1500 eds., 

 H. E. H. 



Of the large number of editions and versions 

 issued ante 1758, only 2 others will be listed 

 here. For others, see Marsden (work cited). 



Marci Pauli "S'eneti de regioni- 



bus orientalibus libri iii. Basel & 

 Paris, 1532. Pre-Linn. 1532.1 . 



— — ■ The most noble and famous 

 travels of Marcus Paulus ... in the 

 East partes of the world, etc. London, 

 1579. Pre-Linn. 1579.1 



1st English version. A modern one is: 



The book of Marco Polo . . . concerning 

 the kingdoms and marvels of the East. Newly 

 translated & edited, with notes by Col. H. Yule. 

 2 vols. London, 1871. 



This edition, revised and augmented by 

 Henri Cordier, was republished, London, 1903. 

 This latter is the greatest thesaurus of Polo 

 learning to be found in any language. 



This old traveller refers to fishing and fish 

 eating by the various peoples among whom he 

 travelled. 



Polyhistor. See Solinus, C. J. 



Pomet, Pierre [1658-1699] Histoire 

 g6n6rale des drogues, traitant des 

 plantes, des animaux, & des min6raux; 

 ouvrage enrichy de plus de quatre cent 

 figures en taiUe-douce tiroes d'apres 

 nature; etc. Paris, 1694. pt. i, 304; 

 pt. n, 108; pt. Ill, 116 p. fol. 



Pre-Linn. 1694.1 



First ed. of an esteemed work which was re- 

 printed in 1735. An English translation first 

 appeared in 1712, and one in German in 1717. 

 The 3rd English edition is: 



A compleat history of druggs, 



written in French by Monsieur Pomet. 

 London, 1737. 419 p. ills. 4°. 



Pre-Linn. 1737.1 



lohthyocoUa (fish glue), p. 285-286; fishes, 

 292-298. figs. 



Pond, Arthur [1705-1758] Letter to 

 the Right Honorable George, Earl of 

 Macclesfield . . . concerning the stones 

 mentioned [by F. Byam). Phil. Trans. 

 Roy. Soc, 1755 (1756), 49, 297-298. 

 pi. Pre-Linn. 1756.1 



See Byam, F. 1756.1, in this section. 



Pontoppidan, Erik (Bishop of Ber- 

 gen) [1698-1764] For a sketch of his 

 life and an estimate of his works, see 

 article by Gjellerup, S. M., in Danske 

 Biographisk Lexikon, 1899. vol. xiii. 



Det forste forsog paa Norges 



natuurlige historic forestillende dette 

 kongeriges luft, grund, fielde, vande, 

 vaxter, metaller, mineralier, steenarter, 

 dyr, etc. 2 Deele. Kjobenhavn, 1752- 

 53. 30 pis. 4°. Pre-Linn. 1752.1 



The 2nd ed.; the first Danish ed., Hafniae, 

 1762. This work by some bibliographers is 

 dated 1751-53, by others, 1752-54. Another 

 ed. appeared in 1754. German and English 

 versions are: 



• Versuch einer natiirlichen His- 

 toric von Norwegen, worinnen die Luft, 

 Grund und Boden, Gewasser, Metalle, 

 MineraUen, Steinarten, Thiere, Vogel, 

 Fische und endlich das Naturel, wie 

 auch die Gewohnheiten und Lebens- 

 arten der Einwohner dieser Konig- 

 reichs besohrieben werden. 2 vols. 

 Kopenhagen, 1753-54. 367 & 536 p. 

 16 & 14 pis. 8°. Pre-Linn. 1753.1 



— — The natural history of Norway, 

 containing the soils, waters, minerals, 

 beasts, birds, fishes, &c. London, 1755. 

 fol. Pre-Linn. 1755.1 



Has a chapter on the sea-serpent, and an il- 

 lustration of it on p. 196. 



For other works by Pontoppidan, see m vol. 

 II, and Addendum. 



Post, Franz [1614r-1680] Theatrum 

 rerum naturalium Brasiliae, (Libri Pic- 

 turati A 32-35). [c. 1643] 



Pre-Linn. 1643.1 



This collection of oil paintings of the plants 

 and animals of Brazil, made by Franz Post in 

 Brazil, brought back to Germany by Count 

 Maurice of Nassau, collected and bound with 

 an illuminated title page by Dr. C. Mentzel, is 

 preserved in the great library of Berlin. For 

 the history of these paintings, see Gudger, E. W. 

 Add. 1912.1 (p. 268-272), and- Mentzel, C, this 

 section. 



Preston, Charles. A general idea of 

 the structure of the internal parts of 

 fish. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc, 1697 

 (1698), 19, 419-424. Pre-Linn. 1698.1 



Prevost, Antoine Frangois [1697- 

 1763] Histoire g^n^rale de voyages; 

 ou, nouvelle collection de toutes les re- 

 lations de voyages par mer et par terre. 

 Nouvelle Edition. 25 vols. La Haye, 

 1747. pis. maps. Pre-Linn. 1747.1 



Difl^rentes espSces de poissons d'Afrique, I, 

 p 317- V, p. 70, 348; VI, p. 413, 528; du Sierra 

 Leona, IV, p. 235; de la Chine, VIII, p. 390. 

 L'Ouwa ou I'oiseau Pesoheur, p6che chinoise, 

 VIII, p. 106. Poissons du Groenland, XXV, 

 p. 258-262. Poissons extra-ordinaires d'Am- 

 boine, XVII, p. 84-254. 485 figs. P«che des 

 morues, XXI, p. 517, 520; XXIII, p. 351 ; XXV, 

 p. 259. Poissons des mers du Nord, XXII, p. 

 388-410;XXV, p. 266. 



Title and notes from Bosgoed. 



The 1st ed. Others are: English, London (4 

 vols.), 1745-47 (probably an abbreviated ver- 

 sion); French, Paris, (15 vols.), 1746-59; Dutch, 

 The Hague (11 vols.), 1747-50 & Amsterdam 



