Memoirs for a natural history of animals. Containing the anatomical descriptions of several creatures dissected by the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris / Englished by Alexander Pitfeild [!] ... 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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Memoirs for a natural history of animals. Containing the anatomical descriptions of several creatures dissected by the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris / Englished by Alexander Pitfeild [!] ... 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. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : Printed by J. Streater, sold by T. Basset, etc., 1688.

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3-267 pages, 13 unnumbered pages, 2 leaves, 40 pages, 35 plates : diagram, engr. frontispiece ; (folio)

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"The measure of the earth " has special t.-p. and pagination

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Wing M1667
ESTC R2399
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), P1582A

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