A description of more than three hundred animals, including quadrupeds, birds, fishes, serpents, and insects, forming a compendium of natural history confirmed by actual and personal observations : with original remarks, and interesting quotations from ancient and modern authors to which is subjoined a new and curious appendix upon allegorical and fabulous animals.

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1812
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A description of more than three hundred animals, including quadrupeds, birds, fishes, serpents, and insects, forming a compendium of natural history confirmed by actual and personal observations : with original remarks, and interesting quotations from ancient and modern authors to which is subjoined a new and curious appendix upon allegorical and fabulous animals. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : Printed for B. and R. Crosby, and Co. ... and sold by all the booksellers in the United Kingdom, 1812.

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1 unnumbered leaf, 2 unnumbered leaves?, xx, iv, 364 pages, 16 unnumbered pages : illustrations (woodcuts), frontispiece ; (8vo)

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A new edition /

Notes

Includes indexes
Copy 1 Note: First leaf (half-title?) wanting.

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