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A tour through the animal world, or, an historical and accurate account of near four hundred animals, birds, fishes, Serpents, Infects, &c. Describing their different Natures, Qualities and Use, as well for the common Service and Food of Man, as his Diversion and Cure of his Maladies. Extracted from Gesner, Willoughby, Swammerdam, Mousset, Merian, and others, the most celebrated Authors upon this Subject. To which is added, a description of some of the most rare and curious productions of the Vegetable world. The most enriched with an entire new set of copper. plates, representing each Quadrupede, Bird, Fish, Insects and Plant. By the Chevalier Denis de Coetlogon, M. D. Knight, of St. Lazare, and Member of the Royal Academy of Angers.
De Coetlogon, Dennis, -1749.Date: 1746- Books
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Volume II. March 1794. Prospectus and proposals for publishing the philosophy of natural history. By William Smellie member of the Antiquarian and Royal Societies of Edinburgh. Volume II. Quarto.
Smellie, William, 1740-1795.Date: 1794]- Books
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Speculum Linnæanum: sive zoologiæ Linnæanæ illustratio; genus omne accurate explicans, representasque species maxime notabiles eleganter sculptas et depictas. Singulae tabulae adjicitur character specificus linnaeanus, nec non descriptio plenior et uberior in lingua latina et Anglica. Auctore Georgio Shaw M. D. R. S. S. figuras effinxit jacobus Sowerby. = Speculum Linnæanum: or Linnæan zoology; containing a complete illustration of the zoological part of the systema naturae of Linnæus = with figures elegantly and accurately coloured, representing the most remarkable species of each genus. With descriptions at large. By George Shaw, M. D. F. R. S. the figures by James Sowerby.
Shaw, George, 1751-1813.Date: MDCCXC. [1790]- Books
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Proposals for publishing by subscription, by Peter Hill at the Cross, A new system of the natural history of quadrupeds, birds, fishes, and insects. ...
Date: 1790?]- Books
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The philosophy of natural history. By William Smellie, member of the Antiquarian and Royal Societies of Edinburgh.
Smellie, William, 1740-1795.Date: MDCCXCI. [1791]