A most valuable and comprehensive work, and the master-key to all the locked-up treasures of ancient and modern history, and to the more secret stores of the obscure memorialists of every nation. See Petzholdt, pp. 816, 817.
Lenglet du Fresnoy. Méthode pour étudier le Géographie.... Avec ... un Catalogue des Cartes Géographiques, de Relations, Voyages, & Descriptions les plus nécessaires pour la Géographie. Par Lenglet Dufresnoy. 5 vols., 12mo.
Paris: Rollin fils & De Bure l'aîné. 1736.
See Petzholdt, p. 789.
Leon (A. de). Epitome de la Biblioteca Oriental í Occidental, Nautica í Geografica.... Por Antonio de Leon, Relator del Supremo í Real Consejo de las Indias. 4to, Engraved Title, pp. (86), 186, Appendix, 12, Colophon, 1 l.
Madrid: Iuan Gonzalez. 1629.
"The author of this work, probably the first which contains a Catalogue of Books on America, afterwards took the surname of Pinelo. The following enlarged edition by Barcia is so clumsily thrown together that it is quite a relief to refer from it to this neat and well-arranged little manual."—Rich.
Leon Pinelo. Epitome de la Biblioteca Oriental y Occidental, Nautica y Geografica: de Don Antonio de Leon Pinelo, del Consejo de S. M. en la casa de la Contratacion de Sevilla y Coronista mayor de las Indias, Añadido y enmendado nuevamente, en que se contienen los Escritores de las Indias Orientales y Occidentales y Reinos convecinos, China, Tartaria, Japon, Persia, Armenia, Etiopia y otras partes.... 3 vols., folio, pp. 1172.
Madrid: Francisco Martinez. M.DCC.XXXVII-VIII.
"The most complete general Bibliography of Geographical Works, Travels, Missionary Reports, etc. The second volume contains the works relating to America, and its greatest value consists in the notices it gives of the Spanish manuscripts on the subjects, most of which are still existing in Spain."—Rich. See also Harrisse's Bib. Am. Vet.