Laet, Johannes de

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Laet, Johannes de (detail)
1625Nieuwe 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)
1633Novvs 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).