30() BULLETIN UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. [T0I.Y. 



10:!3. De Laet, J. Xovvs Orbis | seu | Descriptionis | Indife Oocidentalis— Libri 

 XVIII. I Authore | loanne de Laet Antverp. | Novis Tabulis GeograpUicis et 

 variis I Animantium, Plantarum Fructumnque | Iconibus illustrati. | Cvm 

 Privilegio. | Lvgd. Batav. apud Elsevirioa. A". 1633. 1 vol. Folio. 16 

 p. 11. iucl. half-title, eng. title, and list of (14) maps, pp. 1-690, 9 11. (index). 



1640. De Laet, J. L'Histoire | dv | Nouveau Monde | ou | description | des Indes 

 Occidentals, ( Contenant dix-hnict Liures, | Par le Sieur lean de Laet, 

 d'Anuers ; | Enrichi de nouuelles Tables Geographiques & Figures des | Ani- 

 maiix, Plantes & Fruicts. | [Dessin.] | A Leyde, | Cliez Bonanenture & Abra- 

 ham Elseuiers, Imprimeurs | ordinaires de I'Vniuersit^. | — | do I.5C XL. 1 

 • vol. Folio. 14 p. 11., pp. 1-632, 6 U., 14 maps. 



"This rreuch translatioji of Laet contains many materials not fonnd in the orisinal 

 Dutch, . . This work is full of the most excellent and curious details of the natural 

 history, . . ." 



1682. NiEUHor, J. Johan Nieuhofs | Gedenkweerdige | Brasiliaense | Zee- en Lant- | 

 Keize. | Behelzende | Al het geen op dezelve is voorgevaUen. | Beneffens | Een 

 bondige beschrijving van gantsch | Seerlants Brasil, | Zoo van lantschappen, 

 steden, dierea, gewassen, als ( draghten, zeden en godsdienst der inwoon- 

 ders: | En inzonderheit | Een wijtloopig verhael der merkwaardigste voor- 

 vallen | en geschiedeniesen, die zieh, gedunrende zijn negenjarigh | verblijf 

 in Brasil, in d'oorlogen en opstant der Portngesen | tegen d' onzen, zlch sedert 

 het jaer'1640. tot 1649. | hebben toegedragen. | Doorgaens verciert met ver- 

 scheide afbeeldingen, na 't leven aldaer getekent. | [Afbeeld.] | t' Amsterdam, 

 I — I Voor de Wednwe van Jacob van Meurs, op de Keizers-gracht. 1682. 



1 vol. Folio. Eng. title, illnm. title, dedication, arms, privilege, introdnc- 

 tion, each one leaf; pp. 1-308, 2 11. (directions to binder, and index) ; 44 en- 

 gravings. 



See what is said onteA, p. 241. In addition to this, there is on p. 281 a heading "Indiaense eu 

 Javaense TOgels eu viervoetige dieren"; under which descriptions of rarions East Indian and 

 particularly Javan hirds run to p. 288, including two engravings on which the Dodo and 

 various other hirds are figured. 



The ahove is the fuU printed title. The work is scarcely citable in the present connection, 

 heing of a more general character. 



1724. [Labat, PheJ. B.] Nouveau | Voyage | [du Pfere Jean Baptiste Labat] | 

 aux Isles | de I'Amerique. | Contenant | L'Histoire NatureUe de ces Pays, | 

 I'Origine, les McBurs, la.Eeligion & le Gouvemement des | Habitans anciens 

 & modemes: | Les Guerres & les Evenemens singuliers qui y sont arrirez 

 pendant | le long s4jouT que I'Auteur y a fait: | le Commerce et les Manufac- 

 tures I qui y sont stabiles, & les moyens de les augmenter. | Ouvrage enrichi 

 d'un grand nombre de Cartes, Plans, & Figures en Taille-douce. | Tome pre- 

 mier [second]. I [Vignette. ] | A la Haye, | Chez f ^- ,^''^^- I' f^^^^^- 

 ^ „ ( J. ^ an Dnren. R. Alberts, 



P. Gosse I 



& C. Le Vier, i *^- ^^<^- ^^- ^ "s-ols. 4to. Vol. I, 3 p.U.,pp. j-viij, 1-360, 



2 11., 47 maps and plates. Vol. II, 4 p. U., pp. 1-520, 9 11., many maps and 

 plates. 



There are many editions. Sahin's Sibl gives the following, besides the above :— Paris, 6 

 vols., 12mo, 1722.— La Haye, 6 vols., 12mo, 1724— Paris, 8 vols., 12mo, 1742 ; augmented.— Paris, 

 8vo, 1831 i abridged.— Dutch, Amsterdam, 4 vols., 4to, 1725.— Latin, Xumbero- 7 vols 12mo 

 1782-88. "' '' 



The celebrated work is very full on the Natural History of the ^VTest In<Ues, and ornithol- 

 ogy comes in for its share of treatment ; but the copious detaUs are so scattered through the 

 volumes that formal citation of the bird-matter becomes inconvenient. ° 



1745. Warren, G. Impartial Description of Surinam, &c. 



The date of the original is said to bo 1067. The only shape in which I have handled it is as 

 a r"rt of Vol. n of Osborne's "A Collection of Voyages and Travels', etc. folio London 

 1745, where it is given with a half-title-page as follows :-An imparti.-a | Description '] of I Sui^ 

 mam | upon the | Continent of Guinea | in | America. | -With a | Hlstorv of several stran.'e 



