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"Laet, Johannes de"

 
 
 Laet, Johannes de (detail)
   
1625
Nieuwe Wereldt ofte Beschrijvinghe van West-Indien, wit veelerhande Schriften ende Aen-teekeningen van verscheyden Natien by een versamelt.
Leiden, Isaack Elzevier: xxii + 526. Maps.
–Allen 57.
 
 
 Laet, Johannes de (detail)
   
1633
Novvs Orbis seu Descriptionis Indiae Occidentalis Libri XVIII.... Novis tabulis geographicis et variis animantivm, plantarum fructuumque iconibus illustrati.
Lugduni Batavorum [= Leiden], Elzevirios [= Elzevier]: 1-104, 205-690. Illus.
–Allen 65: "Manati, p. 6, fig. The account occupies nearly a page; the figure is a copy from Clusius." This ed. is said to be much improved over that of 1625. A French ed. (Leiden, Bonaventure & Abraham Elseviers, 1640: 1-632; Allen 69) likewise has the manatee material on p. 6. Whitehead (1977) lists other eds. in Portuguese (1912-25) and Dutch (1931-37).
Daryl P. Domning, Research Associate, Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560, and Laboratory of Evolutionary Biology, Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, Howard University, Washington, D.C. 20059.
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