A new and accurate system of natural history.

Brookes, R.

Verlag: London: J. Newbery, 1763.

Beschreibung

Small octavo,six volumes,uncoloured plates. Contemporary full calf (worn), all volumes rebacked with red label, owner's signature ("Isaac Hitchcock 1763") in each volume. Volume one: The natural history of quadrapedes, including amphibious animals, frogs, and lizards, with their properties and uses in medicine. Volume two: The natural history of birds: with the method of bringing up and managing those of the singing kind. Volume three: The natural history of the fishes and serpents, including sea-turtles, crustaceous, and shell fishes, with their medicinal uses. Volume four: The history of insects, with their uses in medicine. Volume five: The history of waters, earths, stones, fossils, and minerals; with their virtues, properties, and medicinal uses: to which is added, the method in which Linnaeus has treated these subjects. Volume six: The history of vegetables, as well foreign as indigenous, including an account of the roots, barks, woods, leaves, flowers, fruits, seeds, refins, gums, and conscreted juices. BM(NH) p. 257. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 44443

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Titel: A new and accurate system of natural history.

Verlag: London: J. Newbery, 1763.