The natural history of animals containing the anatomical description of several creatures dissected, by the Royal academy of sciences at Paris ... / Done into English by a fellow of the Royal society [Alexander Pitfield] ; to which is added an account of the Measure of a degree of a great circle of the earth, published by the members of the same Academy : English'd by R.W. [i.e. Richard Waller].

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1702
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The natural history of animals containing the anatomical description of several creatures dissected, by the Royal academy of sciences at Paris ... / Done into English by a fellow of the Royal society [Alexander Pitfield] ; to which is added an account of the Measure of a degree of a great circle of the earth, published by the members of the same Academy : English'd by R.W. [i.e. Richard Waller]. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : Publish'd by an order of council of the Royal society : printed for R. Smith, 1702.

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267 pages, 13 unnumbered pages, 40 pages, 35 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, frontispiece ; (folio)

Notes

Engraved title page
Includes index
Copy 1 Note: Many plates wanting. Front is that of the 1687 ed.

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ESTC T113853

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