Scotland illustrated: or, An essay of natural history, in which are exquisitely displayed the nature of the country; the dispositions and manners of the inhabitants, and the various diseases incident to them; and likewise their proper method of cure resulting from their native medicines. And the manifold productions of nature in its threefold kingdom, (viz.) vegetable, animal and mineral, dispersed throughout the northern part of Great Brittain, which makes up the most ancient kingdom of Scotland, are now exactly collected and published together; and their various uses; (especially medicinal and mechanical, for the necessity, as well as the accommodation of life.) Clearly laid open to all. Illustrated with near fifty copper plates. Being the work of twenty years. Published by the command of the most illustrious monarch Charles II. King of Great Brittain, &c. By Sir R. Sibbald M.D. Knight, geographer to His Majesty, and Fellow of the Kings Colledge of Physicians at Edinburgh.
Sibbald, Robert,Sir,1641-1722.
Edinburgh : printed by J.K. J.S. and J.C. and are to be sold by Dorman Newman, at the Kings Arms in the Poultry, London,
1684.
Text in Latin.
A reissue, with added English title page, of: Scotia illustrata sive Prodromus historiÆ naturalis (Wing S3727).
"Nuncius Scoto-Britannus, sive Admonitio de Atlante Scotico seu descriptione ScotiÆ antiquÆ et modernÆ" has separate title page dated M.DC.LXXXIII. [1683] and separate pagination and register.
"Pars secunda specialis. Tomus Primas de plantis ScotiÆ ..." and "Pars secunda specialis. Tomus secundus de animalibus ScotiÆ ..." has separate dated title pages, pagination and register.
Locations:  E  Copy notes: Matched from printed catalog.
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996),
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