Laet, Johannes de, 1582-1648. **Q 48.997 Joannis de Laet Antwerpiani Notae ad dissertationem Hugonis
Grotii De origine gentium Americanarum: et observationes ali- quot ad meliorem indaginem difficillime illius quzstionis. Amstelodami, apud Ludovicum Elzevirium. clo lac xii. 223 pp. Printer’s device. 15 cm., in &s.
“Refutes the arguments of Hugo Grotius, who controverted the theory of the Scythian descent of the American Indians. On the ruins of his antago- nist’s theoretic structures, Laet erected a hypothetical edifice quite as frail.”
Ficld’s Indian Bibliography.
. A vie This card wes printid at the Boston Pubic Library March 27, 1936.
Do973 — Grotius, Hugo, 1583-1645. — Elzevirs. — Indians of America. Ethnol.