A description of three hundred animals : viz. beasts, Birds, Fishes, Serpents, And insects. With a particular account of the manner of their catching 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, described in the whole Book.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boreman, Thomas, active 18th century.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zoology--Pre-Linnean works.

Zoology.

Zoology--Juvenile literature.

Physical Description:

9 unnumbered pages,213 pages, 1 unnumbered page,plates ; 12⁰

Edition:

A new edition, carefully corrected and amended.

Place of Publication:

London : printed for J. F and C. Rivington, B. Law, G. G. J. and J. Robinson, T. Carnan, R. Baldwin, and E. Newbery, M.DCC.LXXXVI. [1786]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

Anonymous. By Thomas Boreman.

The plates, other than the frontispiece and "The Greenland whale fishery", are included in the pagination.

Braces in imprint.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

Roscoe, J41 (3)

English Short Title Catalog, T118395.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.