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    De Rariorum Animalium atque Stirpium Historia
    De Rariorum Animalium atque Stirpium Historia
    De Rariorum Animalium atque Stirpium Historia
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    De Rariorum Animalium atque Stirpium Historia

    By E. S. (Ernest Stewart) Roberts and John Caius

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      De Rariorum Animalium atque Stirpium Historia - E. S. (Ernest Stewart) Roberts

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of De Rariorum Animalium atque Stirpium

      Historia, by John Caius

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      Title: De Rariorum Animalium atque Stirpium Historia

      Author: John Caius

      Editor: E. S. Roberts

      Release Date: December 29, 2008 [EBook #27655]

      Language: Latin

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DE RARIORUM ANIMALIUM ***

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      In this volume no attempt has been made to produce a facsimile reprint. Even if such a design had been entertained, the great variety of form in which the original editions were issued would have made it impossible to carry out the re-issue with any uniformity. Obvious misprints have been corrected, but where a difference in spelling in the same work or on the same page—e.g. baccalarius, baccalaureus—is clearly due to the varying practice of the writer and not to the printer, the words have been left as they stood in the original. On the other hand the accents in the very numerous Greek quotations have been corrected.

      Numbers in the right margin mark the pagination of this 1912 edition. Numbers in parentheses—here shown in the left margin—were printed in the gutter; they probably represent pages or leaves in the 1570 original.

      The numerous illustrations (icones) mentioned in the text were not included in the Complete Works. They are also absent from the only other readily available edition, London 1729. The illustration is taken from elsewhere in the Complete Works.

      Index

      IOANNIS CAII

      BRITANNI

      DE

      Rariorum Animalium

      ATQUE

      STIRPIUM HISTORIA,

      LIBER UNUS.

      IOANNIS CAII

      BRITANNI

      DE

      Rariorum animalium atque stirpium

      historia, libellus.

      Ad Gesnerum.

      Aristotelem, virum omnium sæculorum laude celebratum, cum animalium historiam scriberet, & principis ope & multorum opera usum esse, monumentis traditur, quòd nec omnibus cognoscendis sufficere, nec omnibus locis esse, nec omnium operas præstare unus ille potuisset. Idem cum scirem tibi usu venire potuisse honesto opere occupato (Conrade Gesnere doctissime) adhibebamus diligentiam nostram partim sponte naturæ nostræ, partim honestissimis literis tuis excitati, ut quæ istic in nostra Britannia occurrerent, honestum conatum tuum in utilitatem communem inclinatum promoverent. Misimus igitur quædam per intervalla temporum, prout se fortuna nobis obtulerunt. Ea in unum veluti fascem collegimus, & in ordinem revocavimus: tum quòd universam rerum naturam ut nos expressimus tu non prodidisti, sed detruncatam pro usu tuo: tum quòd quædam intercidisse tibi (ut Brendini anseris descriptionem) in scriptis tuis confiteris. Hæc quòd rarioris generis atque argumenti sunt, tuaque causa scripta, de rariorum animalium atque stirpium historia ad te inscripsimus. Continet enim quadrupedes omnes, volucres, pisces, atque stirpes, quæ aliàs ad te conscripsimus & transmisimus, quæque apud nos in scriptis asservavimus, & aliquot præter ea alia, in quæ vel ex eo tempore incidimus, vel quæ ad te non ante misimus. Ex quibus ea solum prodidimus, quæ rara, & magna ex parte a communi usu sensuque hominum nostri orbis remota nobis videbantur, ab omnibus notis & vulgaribus temperantes. Et quoniam de Britannicis tantum canibus scribere instituimus in libello nostro de canibus Britannicis ad te, externos canes quos ego miserim, tanquam alienos ab illo instituto, in hunc libellum relegavimus. Is, quòd unus solus & Getulus fuit, de eo solo jam dicemus, exordiumque ab eo capiemus, cætera suo ordine prosequentes: sic ut primo de quadrupedibus; mox de avibus; tertio de piscibus; ultimo de stirpibus verba faciamus.

      De Cane Getulo.

      De quadrupedibus. Canis Getulus jam anno domini, 1554. apud nos est in Britannia: corpore coacto, curto & recurvo naturaliter, etiam cum ingrediatur, pariter & collo brevi aut nullo; cruribus longioribus quam pro corporis proportione, cauda brevissima & pene nulla; facie (ut herinaceo terrestri) acuta atque nigra; oculo item nigro, dente canino, ex altera oris parte infra supraque geminato, ex altera simplici; voce canis, gressu simiæ, pilo per

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