A new, complete and universal body, or system of natural history; being a grand, accurate, and extensive display of animated nature; containing accurate descriptions and faithful histories of all the several classes of animals, which inhabit the air, the earth, and the water, in the several parts of the world, comprehending a general and very particular account and description of all kinds of vegetables, fossils, shells, minerals, &c., and a theory of the earth in general / Written by a society of gentlemen ... And published under the immediate inspection of George Henry Millar.

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view A new, complete and universal body, or system of natural history; being a grand, accurate, and extensive display of animated nature; containing accurate descriptions and faithful histories of all the several classes of animals, which inhabit the air, the earth, and the water, in the several parts of the world, comprehending a general and very particular account and description of all kinds of vegetables, fossils, shells, minerals, &c., and a theory of the earth in general / Written by a society of gentlemen ... And published under the immediate inspection of George Henry Millar.

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A new, complete and universal body, or system of natural history; being a grand, accurate, and extensive display of animated nature; containing accurate descriptions and faithful histories of all the several classes of animals, which inhabit the air, the earth, and the water, in the several parts of the world, comprehending a general and very particular account and description of all kinds of vegetables, fossils, shells, minerals, &c., and a theory of the earth in general / Written by a society of gentlemen ... And published under the immediate inspection of George Henry Millar. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : Printed for Alex Hogg, at the King's arms, [1785?]

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618 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf, 51 unnumbered plates : frontispiece ; (folio)

Notes

Copy 1 Note: With list of subscribers. End fly-leaf inscribed 'Ann Child born 28th Augst. 1790. Inoculated 8th May 1793. Has had the measles & chicken pox. This book her property 25 Decr. 1796.'

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ESTC T125266

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