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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boreman, Thomas, fl. 1730-1743.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zoology--Pre-Linnean works.

Zoology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([8],2-213,[1]p.,plates )

Edition:

The second edition, carefully corrected and amended.

Other Title:

Description of three hundred animals,

Place of Publication:

London : printed for R. Ware at the Bible and Sun in Amen-Corner; and T. Game at the Bible, the East End of the New Church in the strand [by J. Stephens], MDCCXXXIV. [1734]

Notes:

Anonymous. By Thomas Boreman.

The titlepage is a cancel.

Titlepage in red and black.

Printer's name from colophon.

Pagination is irregular.

The plates are sometimes numbered as leaves, sometimes as pages.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T120743.

OCLC:

642323618