Memoir's [sic] for a natural history of animals [microform] : containing the anatomical descriptions of several creatures dissected by the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris / Englished by Alexander Pitfeild [i.e. Pitfield] ... ; to which is added an account of the Measure of a degree of a great circle of the earth, published by the same Academy, and Englished by Richard Waller.
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| Other title: | Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire naturelle des animaux. English Memoirs for a natural history of animals. Measure of the earth. |
| Format: | Microfilm Book |
| Language: | English French |
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Printed by Joseph Streater, and are to be sold by T. Basset ...,
1688.
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| Series: | Landmarks II.
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| Item Description: | Translation of: Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire naturelle des animaux. Authorship of original French text attributed to Claude Perrault. Cf. A.A. Barbier. Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes et pseudonymes (1964 repr.), volume 3, column 250. "The measure of the earth" (with special title page and pagination) is a translation of: Mésure de la terre. Authorship of the original French text is attributed to Jean Picard. Cf. A.A. Barbier. Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes et pseudonymes (1964 repr.), volume 3, column 287. Errata: page [2] of 3rd group and page 40 of last group. Includes indexes. |
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| Physical Description: | 18 unnumbered pages, 3-267 pages, 17 unnumbered pages, 40 pages, 35 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 31 cm. |
| Reproduction Note: | Microfiche. |