# An Account of Books Now Printing beyond Sea **Author(s):** Anonymous **Year:** 1698 **Journal:** Philosophical Transactions (1683-1775) **Volume:** 20 **Pages:** 2 pages **Identifier:** jstor-102563 **JSTOR URL:** --- De Nederlandsche Herbarius, ofte Kruidboek der voornaamste Kruiden, &c. met kopere platen vercierd door Steph. Blankaart. T' Amsterdam by Jan. Ten Hoorn, 1698. XV. An Account of Books now Printing beyond Sea. Dr. Volcamer is Printing a Catalogue of the Plants about Nurenberg; with the Exoticks of his Garden, with Figures. Dr. Bagliui, at Rome, is Printing a Book De Fibra Motrice, de Lympha & Pinguedine Morbisq; ab iis dependentibus. Senr. Bulifon is Printing the Lives of the famous Men of the Kingdom of Naples, with their Effigies. Abbate Maruscelli, as also a French Bookseller, at Rome, are about writing an universal Catalogue of Books, Secundum Materias; the first, as he says, has already done above 140,000 Volumes. Monsig Strozzi is writing the Lives of the Popes; illustrated by their Medals. Signior Abbate Nazari is about re-printing the Giornale de Letterati. Father Plumier will publish a Book called, Filicetum Americanum. Monsieur Du Hamel, Author of the Philosophical Systeme, has almost ended his History of the Academie Royale of Sciences at Paris. LONDON: Printed for Sam.Smith, and Benj.Walford, Printers to the Royal Society, at the Prince's Arms in St. Paul's Church-Yard. 1698.