The natural history of animals : containing the anatomical description of several creatures dissected by the Royal academy of sciences at Paris
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Type of record: Book
Title: The natural history of animals : containing the anatomical description of several creatures dissected by the Royal academy of sciences at Paris
Other titles: Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire naturelle des animaux; The measure of the earth
Classmark: Health Sciences Historical Collection SC.3
Creator(s): Perrault, Claude (1613-1688)
Additional creator(s): Pitfield, Alexander (1658-1728) (Other); Waller, Richard (Other); Académie des Sciences (Other)
Related people: Pitfield, Alexander; Waller, Richard
Publisher: Publish'd by an order of council of the Royal society; printed for R. Smith
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1702
Language: English
Size and medium: [xiv], 267, [16], 40 p., 36 plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/168706
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991010349909705181
Description
Originally published: Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire naturelle des animaux (Paris, 1671-1676).
Engraved title page dated 1687.
Translated by Alexander Pitfield; the 'Account' was translated by Richard Waller.
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