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Nova plantarum, animalium et mineralium mexicanorum historia.... [illus. title; or] Rervm medicarvm Novae Hispaniae thesavrvs sev Plantarvm animalivm mineralivm mexicanorvm historia.... [engraved title]
Rome, sumptibus Blasij Deuersini & Zanobij Masotti Bibliopolarum, typis Vitalis Mascardi: [9] + 950 + 90 + [3] + [10].
–Allen 76. An abridgement of earlier eds.: 1604; Mexico, 1615; Rome, 1628 (Allen 62). Reprs. of 1615 ed.: Mexico, Antonio Peñafiel, 1888; Morelia (Mexico), Nicol s León, 1888. Various Spanish transls. bear titles such as Cuatro libros de la natureza y virtudes de las plantas y animales de uso medicinal en la Nueva España.
Manatee, chap. 13, 323-324, 2 figs., "not remarkable for accuracy" (Allen). The manatee material in the 1615 ed. is in Book 4, Pt. 1, Chap. 8, leaves 183-184. Durand (1983: 160-163) reproduces and comments on the two figures, one of which shows the animal with a dugong-like tail and the hooves and genitalia of a horse!
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