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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44849	A catalogue of many natural rarities ... collected by Robert Hubert, aliàs Forges, Gent. ... and dayly to be seen at the place called the Musick House at the Miter, near the west end of St. Pauls Church.	Hubert, Robert, 17th cent.	1664 (1664)	Wing H3243; ESTC R19691	17,786	66

for the Master of these Rarities in his travells never saw more then two peeces and this was one of them A Flint and Copper grown together Several sorts of Talkes Several sorts of Sulphur Several sorts of Earths out of Mines Several sorts of other Minerals as Cinabaris Antimonium Saffor Murienum Flores Martis and divers other Metals and Minerals and the like Precious STONES Amethist in the Mine Granates in the Mine A sort of rich Diamond in the Mine Chrysolits in the Mine Jasper from the Mine Lapis Lazuli from the Mine Malaguita from the Mine Turkeise from the Mine Rubies from the Mine Vermilions from the Mine Emerauld from the Mine Hyacinths from the Mine And divers other sorts of precious stones and different sorts of Pearls for their colours and shapes with several Toad stones and Eagle stones and such like A Bohemian Topaz on a rich pedestal of Ebony An other rare Topaz that hath in it a representation of a forrest or bushy-hills A peece of Ambar that hath in it a representation of a rising vapour or Cloud Divers other peeces of transparent Amber that have all something or other in them as Flies Spyders Ants or the like Divers Stones of strange shapes and regular formes Several Lapides Ammonis or stones like Serpents Several Glosopetrat or Tongue stones Several stones like unto Cloak buttons Several Lapides Lincei Several Lapides Judaici Lapis Hamatites of Numidia Lapis Nephriticus of India Stones like Caps Stones like Hearts Stones like Starres Stones like Wheeles of Watches Stones like little Pillars Stones like Crosses Stones like Screws Stones like Pease Stones like Darts-heads Stones square like Dice Stones in shape like Tobaco rowls Stones with well formed impressions A Stone that is hollow and does appear as if it had a hole quite thorough but it has not A Stone like a Dogs tooth Agate Stones like the eyes of fishes A Stone like a little eare A Stone like ones gummes with teeth A Stone like the little Toe of ones left foot A Stone like the secret parts of a Woman Several Stones like unto Sugar plums Sweet-meates March-pane Sugar-candy Sugar-cake and the like and divers other sorts of stone of the like nature V. Things of strange Operation A Hard white Stone that if one puts it in the fire doth suddenly turn to dust Stones that being put into a glasse of water crack into small peces so that one may hear them crackle A Stone that if one blows on it it smells but if one does not blow it will not smell at all and the harder one blowes the stronger it sents A Stone that if one puts it on the fire gives an excellent smell A Stone that is hard and heavy yet being put in the water does sent odoriferously like a hat-full of violet flowers A good Load-Stone that is as rare as any other thing though common for his sudden attraction of Iron A Stone being held in a moist hand gives a sent like a nasty hog and therefore is called the swine stone A peece of Wood as bad for being scraped and a little worme smells like a stinking Jakes A peece of Wood being scrapt in a glasse of water it makes the water appear of two colours for if one hold the glasse betwixt two men the one will say it is yellow and the other will say that it is of a darke blew A peece of wood that is not heavy yet sinks suddenly under water A stone so hard that can it scratch steel yet being cast in the water does not sink but swimes on the water A Mineral stone that rubbing of it to a peece of bright Iron or Steele turns it suddenly into Copper Stones from the West India that are hard yet being put in vineger stirs to and fro and seemes to creep or go Other sorts of Stones that have the like property of stirring in vineger But above all these Stones for admiration is a little stone like a gray coloured Agate called by some Oculus Mundi it being put in a glasse of clear water becomes as clear as crystal and then taken out in a little time returnes to its first opacity this Rarity was presented to the better adorning of the forementioned curiosities by worthy Sr. Francis Peters A mineral substance that being put in a glasse of wine makes infinite bubbles like atomes that rises in the middle of the Wine to the delighting of the beholders An other mineral substance like silke called Amianthus and also Asbestos it being put in the fire does not consume A Crustated Sponge a little of it dryed and applyed to ones wrist makes it to itch for eight dayes together A fruit that being stuck on a forke and then held over a candle makes a very pleasant fire work A Rose of Jerico that is drawn up together a little bigger then a tenis ball and is an hundred years old Besides these above mentioned things there are Chests and Boxes furnished with many hundreds of Rarities as several shells stones bones marcasits mineralls fruits Nutts excrescences and such like things all different in shapes and operations and of divers countries Their Names and Natures being omitted for to avoid prolixity But if the owner of this collection of Rarities does sell them to any Noble minded party he then God willing will write at large a more ample declaration to the expressing of each thing in particular to honour that vertuous person that shall buy them A Catalogue of the Names of those Great Princes and persons of Quality whose Love of Vertue Learning and of the admirable workes of God in Natural Rarities has been shewed by their Bountifull adding of something to the increase of the forementioned Collection CHARLES the First King of Great Britaine France and Ireland c. CHARLES the Second King of England Scotland France and Ireland Ferdinand the third Emper. of Germany c. Elionora Empresse c. Ferdinand the fourth King of the Romans c. Elleonora Queen Dowagere of Sweade c. Christina Queen of Swede c. John Philips Archbishop of Mentz and Prince Elector c. Charles Lewis Palsgrave of the Rhein and Prince Elector c. John George Prince Elector of Saxony c. Maximilianus Henry Archbishop of Collen and Prince Elector c. Christian Lewis Duke of Lunemburg and Brunzwich c. Frederick Duke of Holstein c. William Landgrave of Hessen Prince of Hersefeild c. Gaston Duke of Orleans c. Philip Earl of Pembrooke Monsieur de Believre Great Prresident of France The Honorable Sr. Thomas Row His Majesties Ambassadour to the Great Mogor in India and also Embassador to the Emperour of the Turks at Constantinople and to the Emperour of Germany and also to divers other Kings Princes and Free States Sr. Thomas Wardner General for the Caribea Islands and Governour of St. Christophers and one of the Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber to King Charles the first Sr. Francis Peters a friend to Ingenuity and Rarities Frederick Shink Governour of Selle and Privy Councellour to the Duke of Brunzwich The Learned Petrus Carisius Resident for the King of Denmark in the united Provinces Sr. Theodore de Mayerne Physitian to Queen Mother Heneretta Maria. Esquire Courtine a lover of vertue and Ingenuity Mr. Povey Treasurer to his Royal Highnesse the Duke of Yorke Dr. Saltzman Physician and Professor in the University of Strasburgh Dr. Fausius Professor in the University of Hidelberg Dr. Moretus Professor in Astronomy in the University of Prague Dr. Cornelius van der Lingon Physician in the University of Utrecht Dr. Housewetel Physician to the King of Sweden and Cheif Physician in Hamburg Dr. Bezler Cheif Physician in Nuramberg Dr. Brown Physician in Ausburg Dr. Dewit Physician in the Country of Liefland Dr. Eastgate Physician in Poplar Mr. Thornton Chaplain to the Righ Honorable Earl of Bedford Mr. Cornelius Middlegest Clerk to the Company of the Royal Adventurers of England Trading into Africa FINIS

a large Soal but hath his Mouth right a fore with one great horne between his eyes and both the sides of his body of one colour different from the Nature of other Soales that are brown of one side and white on the other A Saw fish Vulgarly called the Sword-fish but is not This fish is the enemy to the Whale for with the prickles of his weapon he torments the Whale so much that the great monstrous fish kills her self by swiming too hastily without her Pilot-fish against the shore her body being so fat and heavy and her skin so thin A little prickled Dog fish of the German Sea A Sturgeon of Holland A Sturgeon of an other species such as is found in Italy A Parret or Angrey fish of Brasile it is a species of Globe-fish which cannot swim in a storme and therefore fills his maw with stones to lye steady in the bottom of the water A Sucking fish of Ice land it is a species of Lump-fish that cannot swim likewise in a storme but sticks to the Rocks with a seeming mouth that is under the fore part of his belly A Poyson fish of East India so venemous that thirteen men in a ship dyed by eating of one of them he is called by some the Sea Hare he is for his forme something long and foure square and is a species of Conny-fish An Hermit fish of the bottome of the Sea it is a creature that liveth in the shell of an other fish the fishermen makes use of them to baite other fishes withal A Souldier fish it is a creature that liveth on Mountains or highland in the Caribea Islands under the rootes of trees but once a year cometh to the Sea side to spawn in vast multitudes and then they possess themselves of the shells of other fishes and so march back again with their plundred shells A Woodcock fish of the the Baltic Sea his head is like a long bill full of sharp teeth and for the length it is counted a Sea Serpent A Prickled Tead fish of India being a species of Globe fish A 4. Prickled fish of East India All other fishes though greater are afraid of him for his prickles that he hath before and behind therefore they will not come near him and he is alwayes taken alone An Angel fish so called for his beautifull colours that he hath under water this is of the West Indias A great flying-fish or Sea Swallow that flyes sometimes aboard the ships and thinking to escape a fish that is his adversary becomes a good friend to man by being good meat when well dress'd A Trumpet fish of the Baltic Sea it is a kind of Sea Serpent and somewhat resembleth the Needel fish A Smith fish it is likewise called S. Peters fish the one half is the head and the other half is the body it was given by his Highnesse the Landgrave of Hessen A Wave fish so called for the manner of the growing of his scales A Weapon fish of Bermudos this fish hath a long sharp bone on his back to defend himself which he raiseth or letteth fall in a hollow case when he will An other sort of Weapon fish of the West Indias A fish called the Sea cocke of the Spanish coasts A little fish of Guiney called the Cataphractus that hath two prickles before that are venemous A Sun fish for sleeping in the Sun it is also called the Moon-fish for shining in the night to the amazement of Seamen that sees so great a light this fish is of a strange forme for 't is like a head onely but hath a very little mouth for so great a body A great Netted Stare fish for his forme it is one of the sensiblest creatures of the world and hath but one eye It was given by Sr. Thomas Wardner Governour of Sr. Christophers Island A very rare great Starre fish of India this fish feedes on flat shell fishes and his mouth is in the Center of his body A large Comett or Sixfingers fish of India it is a species of Starre fish A little Crowned Starre fish of the Coast of Denmarke A little round boded Starre fish with long narrow feet or poynts A Flat flowered Starre fish of the German Sea A five pointed little Starre fish of the Coast of Holland A little Starre fish with twelve points taken on the Coast of England A prickled Crab called the Sea Spyder which ha's little clawes on his feet like birds clawes It was given to the augmenting of these Rarities by the Learned Petrus Carisius the King of Denmark's Resident in the united Provinces A King Crab of the Moluccos Island this creature has the eyes on his back and is also called a Sea Spyder for the resemblance A great Sea Crab. A Witland Crab it is like a deaths head and lives in the ground like Connies in a burrow in some Islands of the West Indias An other species of King Crab or Sea Spyder but as light as a sheet of Paper yet it is as big as an ordinary face An Icus Marinus that is called the Sea Orange A Torpedo or Benumming fish for it taketh away the sense of feeling from the fisher mans hands when he is in his Net He is of Africa and did belong to the King of France A very perfect great and true Remora of India whose property is to hinder or stay great ships as they swim it hath on his head many open spaces out of which proceeds a glutinous humour with the which he sticks so fast to any smooth thing that a man cannot well losen him A strange black Plaice from the Sea of Denmark A little prickled Globe Fish also called the Sea Owle for his forme An Hippocampus of the Mediterranean Sea his belly is said to be very venemous An Hippocampus of Brasil of an other sort for he has a little white horne under his head A little Spouting or Fountain fish for it sticks to the Rocks and when one will take him he spouts the water in ones face A strange sort of Oyster that is called the Sentry fish for his nature for he is fastened to the Rocks and most commonly stands open to catch fish for as the fish thinks to eat him he takes his enemy prisoner and then entertaines him as good meat A Navell fish a round slymy mishapen thing that sticks to the Rocks and contracts it self in the shape of a Navell and is a venemous creature A true Purple-fish that sticks to the Rocks and is an insect of the Sea composed of many hard shells layd over one another like the scales of wood-lice I walking by the Sea side to search after the secrets of Nature found one of them in the West India but I wondred at the variety of colours wherewith it stained my hand For first it was green then blew afterwards purple and lastly it became a beautifull Red and taking my handkerchief to my hands it died the same likewise and the colours remaine