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The natural history of Oxford-shire : being an essay toward the natural history of England / by Robert Plot ...
Kislak Center for Special Collections - E.F. Smith Collection Folio QH138.O9 P7 1705
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Plot, Robert, 1640-1696.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Natural history--England--Oxfordshire--Pre-Linnean works.
- Natural history.
- England--Oxfordshire.
- Natural history--Pre-Linnean works.
- Oxfordshire (England)--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
- Oxfordshire (England).
- Genre:
- Booksellers' advertisements -- England -- Oxford -- 18th century.
- Booksellers' advertisements -- England -- London -- 18th century.
- Penn Provenance:
- Walker, Roger F. (bookplate)
- Physical Description:
- 12 unnumbered pages, 366 pages, 10 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates, XVI leaves of plates (1 folded): illustrations, map ; 34 cm (folio)
- Edition:
- The second edition, with large additions and corrections, also a short account of the author,část.
- Fingerprint:
- e.re t.ua e-s, Pr2J (3) 1705 (A)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Printed by Leon Lichfield for Charles Brome ... and John Nicholson ... in ... London, 1705.
- Notes:
- Signatures: [(a)]² (b)-(c)² A-2Z⁴ 3A-3B².
- Engraved plates.
- Booksellers' advertisement on verso of last printed leaf.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.
- Penn Libraries copy has illustrated bookplate of Roger F. Walker affixed to front pastedown.
- Penn Libraries copy bound in full early blind-tooled calf; spine rebacked and boards recornered; 6 raised bands on spine; gold-tooled brown leather spine label ("PLOT'S OXFORD-SHIRE"); imprint date stamped in gold at foot of spine; marbled endpapers; all edges stippled red.
- Penn Libraries copy: title leaf excised, cropped and mounted on a blank leaf; leaves [(a)]2-(b)2 mended at tail margin.
- Cited in:
- ESTC T149630
- OCLC:
- 5516038
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