A description of a great variety of animals and vegetables; viz. beasts, birds, fishes, insects, plants, fruits, and flowers. Extracted from the most considerable writers of natural history; and adapted to the use of all capacities, but more particularly for the entertainment of youth. Being a supplement to A description of three hundred animals. Illustrate with above ninety copper plates, whereon is curiously engraven every animal and vegetable described in the whole book.

  • Boreman, Thomas, active 1730-1743.
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MDCCXXXVI. [1736]
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London : printed [by John Tilly] for F. Gyles in Holbourn, and are to be sold by Mess. Bettesworth and Hitch in Pater-Noster-Row, and S. Birt in Ave-Mary-Lane, MDCCXXXVI. [1736]

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[4],137,[3]p.,plates ; 120.

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ESTC T135787
Maslen & Lancaster. Bowyer ledgers, 2324

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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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