The invaluable works of the celebrated Linnaeus, with a capital portrait of the author. : And Vaillant's magnificent, and newly-discovered Birds of Africa. On Lady-Day, 1802, was published, number I. ... A genuine and universal system of natural history; comprising the three kingdoms of animals, vegetables, and minerals, ... By the late Sir Charles Linnaeus, ... Improved, corrected, and enlarged by J. Frid. Gmelin, M.D.

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Credit: The invaluable works of the celebrated Linnaeus, with a capital portrait of the author. : And Vaillant's magnificent, and newly-discovered Birds of Africa. On Lady-Day, 1802, was published, number I. ... A genuine and universal system of natural history; comprising the three kingdoms of animals, vegetables, and minerals, ... By the late Sir Charles Linnaeus, ... Improved, corrected, and enlarged by J. Frid. Gmelin, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Imalinble WORKS of the celebrated LINNETS, with a capital PORTRAIT of the Author. AND VA1LLANT’s MAGNIFICENT, AND NEWLY-DISCOVERED BIRDS OF AFRICA. On LADY-DAY, 1802, teas published, NUMBER I. (To be continued every SATURDAY), Price Eight-pence Plain, or mod elegantly Coloured, Fourteen-pence,» A GENUINE AND UNIVERSAL SYSTEM of NATURAL HISTORY; COMPRISING THE THREE KINGDOMS OF Animals, Vegetables, and Minerals, ARRANGED UNDER THEIR RESPECTIVE CLASSES, ORDERS, GENERA, and SPECIES. . Bv the late SIR CHARLES LINNAEUS, K.S ' PROEESSGR OF 'PHYSIC AND BOTANY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF UFSAL, AND PRESS* DENT OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY AT STOCKHOLM. Improved, Corrected, and Enlarged, By J, FliiD. G M ELI A, M. D. PROFS S SO R OF NATURAL HISTORY IN THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF GOTTINGEN; Faithfully tranflated into Englifti, and rendered more copious and complete, by the addition of the beautiful BIRDS of Africa, Afia, and America, difeovered in the Travels of M. Vaillant, and now publifhingin Paris, at the Subfcription Price of One Hundred Guineas. And alfo, -with the fuperb Hiftory of FISHES, by Mark Eliezer Bloch, one of the moftcelebrious pub¬ lications of the prefent day.—The Amphibious Animals, Reptiles, InfeCts, Polypees, See. in the coftly works of Albertus Seba, Merian, Fabricius, Knorr, Drury, &c. With the ele¬ gant Improvements in Natural Hiftory, by the Count de Buffon ; and the more modern Dif- coveries of the late Britifh Navigators in the Southern Pacific, Ocean, New Holland, New South Wales, China, Cochin-China, See.— Methodically incorporated and arranged, by the EDITORS of the ENCYCLOPAEDIA LONDINENSIS. The whole to be completed in Twelve handfome QCtavo Volumes, ornamented with Copper-plates, fuperhly coloured from Nature. Thele Engravings will confiftof Figures of fhe Human Species, in all the different varieties of climate and colour. The whole Simia tribe; or Apes, Baboons, and Monkeys, from the recent and coftly work of M. Audebert. The rare and curious fpegies of each genus of Quadrupeds, or four-footed animals. Birds, the moft beautiful and fplendid. Serpents, the m©ft poifonous and deftruCtive. Lizards, Crocodiles, and Alligators, and all the Amphibious Tribes. Fifties, the moft curious and uncommon ; Shell-filh, InfeCts, and Polypees, of every known Genus. With beautiful Plates of the twenty-four daftes of Plants, forming the Sexual Syftem of Linnaeus, and which may enable a child to inveftigate and define the true principles of Botany. With a capital Portrait of Linnaeus, from an original Painting in the Royal Academy of Stockholm, From the Fund of Materials feleCted for Years paft, for the Compilation of this elaborate Work, Subferibers may reft affured, that all the Engravings are originally taken from the living Animal, or whatever fubjett the Plate profeffes to reprefent; and that by proper care and exactitude in colouring, they will be true reprefentations of Natu re’s Self. There is no complete Syftem of Natural Hiftory, at prefent to be found in the Englifh Language. We know fcarcely any thing of Fifties, of Serpents, or of Amphibious Animals in general; and the few Books we now have on thefe fubjeCts, are hardly fit for the amufe- rnfept of children, being pregnant with error, and circumfcribed in their limits. The Public will pleafe to note that this is a liberal Tranflation; not a mere Catalogue of Beings, clothed in technical terms. It is a circumftantial Hiftory, authenticated by the Synonymes of all refpeftable modern Authors. At the end of each Volume will he given a Copious Index, with Directions to the Binder for placing the Copper-plates. LONDON : Printed by Lewis and Co. No. 2, Paternoster-row, For the Proprietor and fold by Charnpante and Whitrow, Jewry-ftreet, Aldgate; and at the Britifh Diredory-olftce, Ave-Maria-laue, St. Paul’s.