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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.
- Animals--Pictorial works.
- Animals.
- Whaling.
- Animals--Folklore.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource ([8],1,[1],2-213,[1]p.,plates )
- Edition:
- The seventh 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 on Ludgate-Hill, MDCCLIII. [1753]
- Notes:
- 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.
- Reproduction of original from British Library.
- Cited in:
- English Short Title Catalog, T135788.
- OCLC:
- 642397092
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