A description of above three hundred animals, : viz. beasts, birds, fishes, serpents, and insects. With a particular account of the manner of catching whales in Greenland. Extracted from the best authors, and adapted to the use of all capacities. Illustrated with copperplates. Whereon is curiously engraven every beast, bird, fish, serpent, and insect, described in the whole book..
Boreman, Thomas,active 18th century.
Clark, Andrew,active 1813,former owner.StEDNL
Clark, Henry,active 1823,former owner.StEDNL
Cullum, Thomas Gery,Sir,former owner.StEDNL
Glasgow: : Printed for James Lumsden, engraver.,
M.DCC.XCIV [1794]..
Anonymous. By Thomas Boreman.
The plates other than the frontispiece and 'The Greenland whale fishery' are included in the pagination and sometimes numbered as leaves, sometimes as pages.
The verso of 4th leaf is numbered 4.
At foot of titlepage: [Price three shillings bound]
ESTC
Provenance: name on the verso of the second front free endpaper reads "Andrew Clark Edinburgh 1813." Inscription at the head of the t.p. reads "Henry Clark his book 1823".
Bound in sheep with armorial stamp of Thomas Gery Cullum in gold at the head of the spine. Crest: A lion sejant supporting a column.
Zoology
Whales