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Opera, historiam naturalem spectantia; or, gazophylacium. Containing several 1000 figures of birds, beasts, reptiles, insects, fish, beetles, moths, flies, shells, corals, fossils, minerals, stones, fungusses, mosses, herbs, plants, &c. from all nations, on 156 copperplates / [James Petiver].

  • James Petiver
Date:
1764
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Opera, historiam naturalem spectantia; or, gazophylacium. Containing several 1000 figures of birds, beasts, reptiles, insects, fish, beetles, moths, flies, shells, corals, fossils, minerals, stones, fungusses, mosses, herbs, plants, &c. from all nations, on 156 copperplates / [James Petiver]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    JACOBI PETIVERI OPERA, HISTORI AM NATURALEM SPECTANTIA; O R, GAZO P H Y LAC I CONTAINING Several 1000 Figures of Birds, Beads, Reptiles, Infects, Fifh, Beetles, Moths, Flies, Shells, Corals, Foffils, Minerals, Stones, Funguffes, Modes, Herbs, Plants, &c. from all Nations, on 156 Copper-Plates, with Latin and Englifh Names. The Shells, &c. have Englijh, Latin, and Native Names. VOL. I. N. B. About 10 o of thefe Plates were never published before. LONDON: * 4 Printed for John Millan, near Whitehall, mdcclxiv. Price 61. 6s. Where may be had (lately publifh’d) Price 1/. 5$. Dillenius’s General Hiftory of Land and Water, &c. Moffes and Corals, containing all the known Species, exhibited by about 1000 Figures, on 85 large Royal 4to Copper Plates, their Names, Places of Growth and Seafons, in Englifh, their Names in Latin referring to each Figure,
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