A general natural history, or, New and accurate descriptions of the animals, vegetables, and minerals, of the different parts of the world
Subtitle: with their virtues and uses, as far as hitherto certainly known, in medicine and mechanics : illustrated by a general review of the knowledge of the ancients, and the discoveries and improvements of later ages in these studies : including the history of the materia medica, pictoria, and tinctoria, of the present and earlier ages : as also observations on the neglected properties of many valuable substances known at present, and attempts to discover the lost medicines, &c. of former ages, in a series of critical enquiries into the materia medica of the ancient Greeks : with a great number of figures, elegantly engraved
By: by John Hill
Publisher: Printed for Thomas Osborne, in Gray's-Inn, Holbourn
Published: 1748
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Natural history; Mineralogy; Early works to 1800
Other titles: General natural history; New and accurate descriptions of the animals, vegetables, and minerals, of the different parts of the world; History of fossils.; History of plants.; History of animals.
Notes: Individual vol. titles from half-titles.

Vol. 3 lacks general t.p.: An history of animals : containing descriptions of the birds, beasts, fishes, and insects, of the several parts of the world : and including accounts of the several classes of animalcules, visible only by the assistance of the microscopes ...

Includes indexes.

English short title catalogue (ESTC), T40566

Henrey, B.  Brit. botanical lit 809
Table of contents: title: v. 1. A history of fossils; title: v. 2. A history of plants; title: v. 3. An history of animals.