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 on Ludgate-Hill, MDCCLIII. [1753] The seventh edition, carefully corrected and amended.; ..

Publication year

1753

ESTC No.

T135788

Grub Street ID

184151

Description

[8],1,[1],2-213,[1]p.,plates ; 12°.

Note

Anonymous. By Thomas Boreman

At bottom corner of title page: (pr. 2s. 6d); Titlepage in red and black - The plates, apart from the frontispiece, are included in the pagination, and are numbered either as pages or leaves

Braces in imprint.

Uncontrolled note

The first numbered plate may be bound at the wrong side: 300 may in fact be [9], 213, [1]p