A description of a great variety of animals and vegetables : viz. beasts, birds, fishes, insects, plants, fruits, and flowers : extracted from the most considerable writers of natural history and adapted to the use of all capacities, but more particularly for the entertainment of youth : being a supplement to A description of three hundred animals.
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| Format: | Microform Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | The second edition. |
| Series: | Opie collection of children's literature ;
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| Item Description: | Attributed to Thomas Boreman by the Osborne Coll. and the Bodleian Library. "Illustrated with above ninety copper plates, whereon is curiously engraven every animal and vegetable described in the whole book." Pages 133-137 misnumbered as 121, 134-135, 124, 129. "Natural and philosophical conjectures on the Ignis fatuus, or Jack in the lanthorn: endeavouring to prove, that the light so called proceeds from some flying insect, and not from a fired vapour as generally believ'd: with a description and curious figure of the Indian Lanthorn fly, a nocturnal insect, which carries a light in the dark nights, equal to that of our Will with a whisp": pages [111]-129 (i.e. 137) with separate title page dated 1736. Includes index, introduction "To the reader". Reproduction of original in the Bodleian Library. Microform. |
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| Physical Description: | 4 unnumbered pages, 129 (i.e. 137), 3 unnumbered pages, 53 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations |