AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 



VAL 



Vallisnieri, A. 



Descriptio anatomioa anguillse 



(In Valentini, M. B. Amphitheatrum 

 Zootomicum, 1720, pt. ii, p. 126-131, 

 pi.) Pre-Linn. 1720.1 



Osservazioni di corpi marini che 



su monti si trovano; della loro origine, 

 e dello stato del mondo avanti '1 diluvio, 

 nel diluvio, e dopo il diluvio, letters 

 critiche. Venezia, 1721. 254 p. figs. 

 4°. Pre-Linn. 1721.1 



Latin edition: "De corporibus marinis," etc. 

 Venice, 1728. 



Opere diverse. 3 vols. Venetia 



& Padua, 1721-26. 79 pis. 4°. 



Pre-Linn. 1721.2 

 Reproduction of eel, vol. II, p. 89. 



Del Cameleonte e di vari ani- 

 mal! d'ltalia, [de loeustis, ranis, oroco- 

 dilo, remora, etc.] Giorn. Letter. 

 Italia, [c. 1725], 23, no. 2. 



Pre-Linn. 1725.1 



Opere fisioo-mediche stampate e 



manoscritte . . . raooolte da Antonio 

 suo figliuolo, &c. (Notizie della vita, 

 e degli studi del Kavalier A. Vallisneri, 

 tratte dalle memorie da lui vivente affi- 

 data a G. Co : di Porzia, &c.) 3 vols. Ve- 

 nezia, 1733. illust. fol. 



Pre-Linn. 1733.1 



Valvasor, John Weichart [1641-1693] 

 A full and accurate description of the 

 wonderful lake of Zirknitz in that coun- 

 try [of Carniolai. Phil. Trans. Roy. 

 Soc, 1687 (1688), 16, 411-426. 



Pre-Linn. 1688.1 



Describes the fishing in this lake. 



Die Ehre des Herzogthums 



Grain, mit Eklarungen und Anmerk- 



ungen. 4 parts. Leybach, 1689. fol. 



Pre-Linn. 1689.1 



Some fishes are described. 



Van der Stell, Adrien. Poissons, 

 ^crevisses et crabes de diverges cou- 

 leurs et figures extraordinaires que I'on 

 trouve autour des ties Moluques, et 

 sur les c6tes des terres Australes; pu- 

 blies par L. Renard. 2 vols. Amster- 

 dam, 1718-19. fol. Pre-Linn. 1719.1 



Van der Stell's collections are figured in vol. 

 II, 1719. 



The 1st ed,; the 2nd Amsterdam, 1754. 

 See also, Renard, L. in this section, 1718.1. 



Vaniere, Jacques [1664-1739] Pra;- 

 dium rusticum. TolosEe [Toulouse], 

 1730. 12°. Pre-Linn. 1730.1 



Fishes in canto xv; vivarium, canto xvi. 



Other eds.: Tolosa, 1742; Paris, 1746; Am- 



sterdam, 1749; Cologne, 1750; Paris, 1765 & 1780 

 (See in Vol. II. Vanidre, J. 1765.1 & 1780.1); 

 Paris, 1786. 



For a late English version, see in Vol. II 

 VaniSre, J., 1809.1. 



Varro, Marcus Terentius [c. 114- 

 26 B. C.] De re rustica libri tres. (In- 

 cluded in Scriptores rei rusticae. Vene- 

 tiae, 1472. fol.) Pre-Linn. 1472.1 



Books 11 and iii relate to fishes. In' chap. 17 

 of the latter are described the famous great salt 

 water ponds or pounds of the Rome of Varro's 

 day. 



For various eds. of this compilation, see 

 under Anon, in this section. One of the best is; 



M. T. Varronis de re rustica libri iii. (In 

 Gesner, J, M. Scriptores rei rusticae veteres la- 

 tini, etc. 1787, vol. I. 8°.) 



A well-known English version is: 



The three books of M. Terentius Varro con- 

 cerning agriculture. Translated by the Rev. T. 

 Owen, M. A. Oxford, University Press, 1800. 

 8°. 



"There are German translations by G. 

 Grosse, Halle, 1787-8, and by J. F. Mayer, 

 Nurnberg, 1774 & 1781. In Panckoucke's ' Bi- 

 blioth^que Latine-Francaise,' 1826, there is a 

 French version by X. Rousselot accompanying 

 the original; and another by F. Wolff in Nisard's 

 'Collection des auteurs Latins,' etc. 1850." — 

 W. &S. 



Varronis opera omnia quse ex- 

 tant. Cum notis J. Scaligeri, A. Tur- 

 nebi, P. Victorii, & A. Augustini. His 

 accedunt tabulae naufragii, seu frag- 

 menta ejusdem, etc. 6 parts. Dur- 

 drechti, 1619. 8°. Pre-Linn. 1619.1 



Other eds. of the "Opera" are Augsburg; 

 1581, 1601 (said to be very accurate), & 1619. 



Varro, Marcus Terentius, Cato, M., 

 & others. Libri de re rustica. Parisiis, 

 1533. 506 p. fol. Pre-Linn. 1533.1 



Other eds.: Paris, 1543; Lugduni, 1549; Leip- 

 sic, 1794-95. 



See also Cato, M., Varro, M. T., & others, 

 Pre-Linn. 1533.1. 



Velius, Th. Chronyk van Hoorn, 

 etc. Hoorn, 1740. Pre-Linn. 1740.1 



Deals extensively with herring fisheries. 

 Other eds.: Hoorn, 1604, 1617, 1648. 



Venables {Col.) Robert [c. 1612-1687] 

 The experieno'd angler, or, angling 

 improv'd; being a general discourse of 

 angling, imparting many of the aptest 

 wayes and choicest experiments for the 

 taking of most sorts of fish in pond or 

 river. London, 1662. xvi, 105, vi p. 

 pis. Pre-Linn. 1662.1 



"The engravings of fish are the same as those 

 in [the first four editions of] Walton's "Com- 

 pleat angler." — W. & S. 



Other eds.: 1666, 1683, 1686; and a 6th, in 

 1825-1827. The 2nd edition was destroyed in 

 the great fire, 1666. 



The London reprints of 1825 and 1827 both 

 contain a memoir of Venables. The latter is the 

 better. 



