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La historia general delas Indias.
Seville, Juan Cromberger: leaves i-cxciii. Illus. Sept. 30, 1535.
–Allen 5. Many later eds., e.g., Madrid, Impr. Real Acad. de la Historia, 1851[-55] (manatee, Part I, Lib. XIII, Cap. IX, 433-436; no illustration; manatee material reprinted in Durand, 1983: 59-62, 85-88); also Asuncion (Paraguay), Editorial Guarania, 1944. Titles vary. See also Ramusio (1565); Purchas his pilgrimes, 1625, 3: 970-1000 (Allen 61; manatee, 987-989). See under Oviedo (1526) for a bibliography of Oviedo's works.
Manatee, leaves cvi-cviii, 1 fig.: "Capitulo x. Del Manati y de su grandeza & forma: & de la manera que algunas vezes los indios tomauan este grãde animal conel pexe reuerso: & otras particularidades." According to Allen, "The account occupies 5 pp., and is important as the source whence many later compilers drew their materials for the history of the Manatee, and is still historically of the highest interest. There is a small, very rude cut, bearing some likeness to the general form of the Manatee - the earliest figure of the animal published. In the edition of 1547 the text (ff. cvj-cvijj) is the same as the present, but the figure is slightly different, showing an attempt at artistic improvement." This altered version has been reproduced several times in the mistaken belief that it was the earliest figure published. To my knowledge, the original 1535 illustration has been republished only twice: in Durand (1983: 159), and as the frontispiece of the printed ed. of this bibliography (1996).
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