A description of three hundred animals, viz. beasts, birds, fishes, serpents, and insects. With a particular account of the manner of their catching of whales in Greenland. Extracted from the best authors, and adapted to the Use of all Capacities. Illustrated with copper plates, whereon is curiously engraven every Beast, Bird, Fish, Serpent, and Insect, described in the whole Book.

  • Boreman, Thomas, active 1730-1743.
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MDCCLXIX. [1769]
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London : printed for H. Woodfall, J. Rivington, R. Baldwin, Hawes, Clarke and Collins, S. Crowder, T. Caslon, and Robinson and Roberts, MDCCLXIX. [1769]

Physical description

[9],213,[1]p.,plates ; 120.

Edition

The tenth edition, carefully corrected and amended.

References note

ESTC T153854

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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