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AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 



SMI 



Smith, J. 



Travels and works of Captain John Smith. 

 President of Virginia and Admiral of New Eng- 

 land, 1580-1631. Edited by Edward Arber, 

 with a biographical and critical introduction by 

 A. G. Bradley. 2 vols. Edinburgh, 1910. 

 cxlvi, 984 p. ills. 



Smith, William. A natural history 

 of Nevis and the rest of the English 

 Leeward Charibee Islands in America. 

 Cambridge, 1745. 318 p. 



Pre-Linn. 1745.1 



Fishes (dolphin, shark, etc.), p. 3, IS, 182- 

 206. Fishing with the "Dog-wood" bark, p. 

 3-4. 



Solinus, Caius Julius [fl. 3rd. cent. 

 A. D.] Polyhistor; de mirabilibus mundi. 

 [Rome, c. 1475]. 8°. 



Pre-Linn. 1475.1 



This work, written about 325 A.D., is es- 

 sentially an abridgment of portions of Pliny'a 

 "Natural History," arranged from the geo- 

 graphical point of view, and greatly enlarged. 

 The compilation was revised in the 6th century, 

 and then received the name of "Polyhistor." 

 Six or seven species of fish are described. 



Other 15th cent. eds. are: Venice, 1473, 1491, 

 1493, 1498; Parma, 1480; Brescia, 1498; Bologna, 

 1500. 



Copies 1st ed., H., H. E. H.; of other eds., 

 N. Y. P., L. C, & H. E. H. 



Title Brescia ed. reads: 



-Collectanea de mirabilibus mundi. 



Brixis! [Brescia], 1498. fol. 



Pre-Linn. 1498.1 



Some later eds. are: Poitiers, 1554; Antwerp, 

 1572; Gotha, 1665; Leipsic & Nuremberg, 1777. 

 An English version is: 



The excellent and pleasant 



work of Julius Solinus. Polyhistor . . . 

 Translated out of Latin into English 

 by Arthur Golding, Gent. London, 

 1587. 4°. [Blk. letter] 



Pre-Linn. 1587.1 



This contains the life of Solinus by John 

 Camertes. 



A modern ed. of the works of Solinus is; 



C. Julii Solini collectaneo rerum memorabi- 

 lium. Iterum recensuit Th. IVIommsen. Ber- 

 lin, 1895. cv, 276 p. 8°. 



Soto, Hernando de [c. 1500-1542] 

 See Fidalgo de Elvas. 



Spada, Giovanni Giacomo [1680-1774] 

 Dissertazione ove si prova, che li petri- 

 ficati corpi marini, che nei monti adia- 

 centi a Verona si trovano, non sono 

 scherzi di natura, tA diluviani; ma 

 antidiluviani. Verona, 1737. 23 p. 4°. 

 Pre-Linn. 1737.1 



Giunta alle dissertazione de' 



corpi marini petrificati; aooed. diss, de 

 plantis veronensibus. Verona, 1737. 

 18 p. 4°. Pre-Linn. 1737.2 



Catalogus lapidum Veronen- 



sium, IDIOMORPHON, id est propria 

 forma praeditorum, qui apud Joannem 

 Jaoobum Spadam, etc. a.sservantur. 

 Veronal, 1739. 31 p. gr. 4. 



Pre-Linn. 1739.1 



■ Catalogi lapidimi Veronensium 



mantissa. Veronae, 1740. 



Pre-Linn. 1740.1 



Corporum lapidefactorum agri 



Veronensis catalogus quae apud J. J. 

 Spadam . . . asservantur. Editio al- 

 tera . . . cui accedunt annotationes, 

 etc. Verona;, 1744. 81 p. illust. 4°. 

 Pre-Linn. 1744.1 



All Spada's works contain references to Eo- 

 cene fishes of IVIonte Bolca. 



Spener, Christ. Maximilian. Cata- 

 logus zahlreicher, nutzlioher und son- 

 derbahrer von Natur und Kunst ge- 

 bildeter Seltenheiten in Regno Animali, 

 rahrer Preparatorum und in Spiritu 

 Vini conservatorum von . . . Fischen, 

 . . . auch andern Indianischen und 

 Europseischen . . . See-Thieren . . . 

 Petrifioata antediluviana, verschiedene 

 Thiere, Fischen, Musoheln, &o. Ber- 

 lin, 1718. figs. 8°. Pre-Linn. 1718.1 



Sperling, Jo. [c. 1603-1658] {frcEsesy 

 Dissertatio de respiratione piscium. 

 Wittebergffi, 1637. 2 pi. 4°. 



Pre-Linn. 1637.1 



Eccard, respond. 



■ Exercitationes physicse. 

 1663. Pre-Linn. 



Witte- 

 1663.1 



Creation and generation of fishes, p. 684-686. 

 Copy, Col. 



Stade, Hans [1520-1565] Wahr- 

 haftig Historie und Beschreibung einer 

 Landschaft der wilden, nacketen, grim- 

 migen Menschenfresserleuten, in der 

 neuen welt Amerika gelegen. Marburg, 

 1557. Pre-Linn. 1557.1 



For a list of the 21 subsequent editions and 

 translations of this work, see introduction to the 

 Portuguese version by A. Lofgren published by 

 Institute Historico e Geographico de Sao Paulo, 

 Brazil, in 1900. Among the facsimile illustra- 

 tions is a fishing scene in chapter 7, p. 128. 



For Enghsh readers this book is best avail- 

 able as: 



The captivity of H. Stade ... in A. D. 

 1547-1555, among the wild tribes of eastern 

 Brazil, etc. (In Hakluyt Soc, Works, 1874, no. 

 51.) 



Staentzl de Cronfels, A. L. Pis- 

 cinarium, oder Teicht Ordnung wa- 

 rinnen von Erbawung der Teichte, 

 derselbten Tamme, Rohren Ablass . . . 

 von Erziegung und Versetzung der 



