A description of above three hundred animals, viz. beasts, birds, fishes, serpents, and insects. With a particular account of the manner of catching whales in Greenland. Extracted from the best Authors, and adapted to the Use of all Capacities. Illustrated with copperplates. Whereon is curiously Engraven every Beast, Bird, Fish, Serpent, and Insect, described in the whole Book.
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- A description of above three hundred animals, viz. beasts, birds, fishes, serpents, and insects. With a particular account of the manner of catching whales in Greenland. Extracted from the best Authors, and adapted to the Use of all Capacities. Illustrated with copperplates. Whereon is curiously Engraven every Beast, Bird, Fish, Serpent, and Insect, described in the whole Book.
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London [i.e. York?]: printed for A. Millar; W. Law, and R. Cater; and for Wilson, Spence, and Mawman, York, Anno 1795.
- Publication year
- 1795
- ESTC No.
- T135452
- Grub Street ID
- 183868
- Description
- 4,[4],148,[1],149-207p.,plates ; 12⁰
- Note
- Anonymous. By Thomas Boreman.
The plates other than the frontispiece and 'The Greenland whale fishery' are numbered as leaves and included in the pagination.
The London part of the imprint is false; probably printed at York.
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- Plates also part of register. leading to confused register