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Jacobi Petiveri opera, Historiam naturalem spectantia [electronic resource] : containing several tho...

Jacobi Petiveri opera, Historiam naturalem spectantia [electronic resource] : containing several tho...

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Jacobi Petiveri opera, Historiam naturalem spectantia [electronic resource] : containing several thousand figures of birds, beasts, fish, reptiles, insects, shells, corals, and fossils; also of trees, shrubs, herbs, fruits, fungus's, mosses, sea-weeds, &c. from all parts, adapted to Ray's History of plants, on above three hundred copper-plates, with English and Latin names. The shells have English, Latin, and native names. N.B. Above one hundred of these plates were never published before. To which are now added seventeen curious tracts, most of them so scarce as not to be purchased, which completes all he ever wrote upon natural history; viz, Gazophylacium naturæ et artis. Musei rariora naturæ, &c. 238 land and water beetles. 26 Humble-bees. 19 British fresh-water fishes. 42 [British] land and water shells. 100 [British] sea-shells, eggs, stars, &c. 26 Kentish 25 Sheppey 59 Gloucestershire fossils. 112 Merian's Surinam insects. On snails and worms being Hermaphrodites. Ray's Method of plants illustrated. Herbs of the same class have similar virtues. Virginian cicada, wasps, bees, &c. The two volumes containing above ten thousand articles, engraved in the most accurate manner, from originals, the gifts of the most eminent persons in all nations. The additions corrected by the late Mr. James Empson, of the British Museum, &c.

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Jacobi Petiveri opera, Historiam naturalem spectantia [electronic resource] : containing several thousand figures of birds, beasts, fish, reptiles, insects, shells, corals, and fossils; also of trees, shrubs, herbs, fruits, fungus's, mosses, sea-weeds, &c. from all parts, adapted to Ray's History of plants, on above three hundred copper-plates, with English and Latin names. The shells have English, Latin, and native names. N.B. Above one hundred of these plates were never published before. To which are now added seventeen curious tracts, most of them so scarce as not to be purchased, which completes all he ever wrote upon natural history; viz, Gazophylacium naturæ et artis. Musei rariora naturæ, &c. 238 land and water beetles. 26 Humble-bees. 19 British fresh-water fishes. 42 [British] land and water shells. 100 [British] sea-shells, eggs, stars, &c. 26 Kentish 25 Sheppey 59 Gloucestershire fossils. 112 Merian's Surinam insects. On snails and worms being Hermaphrodites. Ray's Method of plants illustrated. Herbs of the same class have similar virtues. Virginian cicada, wasps, bees, &c. The two volumes containing above ten thousand articles, engraved in the most accurate manner, from originals, the gifts of the most eminent persons in all nations. The additions corrected by the late Mr. James Empson, of the British Museum, &c.

Publisher

London : printed for John Millan, bookseller, near White-Hall, 1767.

Date

1767.

Record Identifier

74VKwdJGVXBO

MMS ID

991018252479702626

Language

Latin

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2v.,plates ; 2°.

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Publisher

London : printed for John Millan, bookseller, near White-Hall, 1767.

Place of Publication

England

Date Published

1767.

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Jacobi Petiveri opera, Historiam naturalem spectantia [electronic resource] : containing several thousand figures of birds, beasts, fish, reptiles, insects, shells, corals, and fossils; also of trees, shrubs, herbs, fruits, fungus's, mosses, sea-weeds, &c. from all parts, adapted to Ray's History of plants, on above three hundred copper-plates, wit...

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General note

A collection made up of works originally published separately.

Brace(s) in title or imprint.

First published in this form, 1764.

Price on title page: (Price, plain, 6l. 6s.-Flies &c. coloured, 7l. 7s.-the whole coloured, 2il.)

Reproduction of original from "Department of Special Collections, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas".

Citation / References Note

ESTC T152086.

Additional physical form availability note

Also available in microfilm held offsite at RAV/FM4/51.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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74VKwdJGVXBO

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MMS ID

991018252479702626