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, describ'd in the whole Book

People / Organizations

• Richard Ware I ("printed for")

Imprint

London : printed for R. Ware at the Bible and Sun in Amen-Corner; and T. Game at the Bible, the East End of the New Church in the strand [by J. Stephens], MDCCXXXIV. [1734] The second edition, carefully corrected and amended.; ..

Publication year

1734

ESTC No.

T120743

Grub Street ID

171746

Description

[8],2-213,[1]p.,plates ; 8°.

Note

Anonymous. By Thomas Boreman

The titlepage is a cancel

Titlepage in red and black

Printer's name from colophon

Pagination is irregular

The plates are sometimes numbered as leaves, sometimes as pages.