| Ref No | EFP/094/1688/42 |
| Finding Number | AQ 094/1688/42 |
| Title | Memoir's 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, Fellow of the Royal Society. 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, S.R.S |
| Level | Item |
| Date | 1688 |
| Description | Me?moires pour servir a? l'histoire naturelle des animaux. English; Measure of the earth; Mesure de la terre. English; Memoires for a natural history of animals
Title page in red and black.; With additional engraved title page (plate): Memoires for a natural history of animals.; "The measure of the earth:" has separate dated title page, with imprint "printed by R. Roberts: ...", pagination and register.; Imprimatur on leaf [sup]2[A]1v: 28. Octobris, 1687. Imprimatur, ... John Hokyns, V.P.R.S.; Identified as Wing M1667 on UMI microfilm set "Early English books, 1641-1700" reel 795. "The measure of the earth" identified as Wing M1582 on UMI microfilm "Early English books, 1641-1700 reel 1016.; Includes index.; Measure of the earth.; Memoires for a natural history of animals.; Microfilm.; R2399.; Translation, by Alexander Pitfield, of Perrault, Claude "Me?moires pour servir a? l'histoire naturelle des animaux", with a translation, by Richard Waller, of "Mesure de la terre" (published by L'Acade?mie royale des sciences (France)) |
| Author | Perrault, Claude, 1613-1688; Pitfield, Alexander, 1658-1728, tr; Waller, Richard, tr |
| Subject | Zoology -- Pre-Linnean works |
| Physical Description | [16], 3-267, [17], 40 p., [36] leaves of plates : diagrams, ill. ; 2j. |
| Access Status | Open |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | London : printed by Joseph Streater, and are to be sold by T. Basset, at the George in Fleet-Street. J. Robinson, at the Golden Lyon in St. Paul's Church-Yard. B. Aylmer, at the Three Pigeons over against the Royal-Exchange. Joh. Southby, at the Harrow in |
| Acade?mie royale des sciences (France) |