The natural history of animals
Subtitle: containing the anatomical description of several creatures dissected by the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris. ... done into English by a Fellow of the Royal Society : to which is added an account of the measure of a degree of a great circle of the earth, ... English'd by R.W. ... with an alphabetical table ...
Contributors: Perrault, Claude, 1613-1688; Smith, Richard, -approximately 1720, printer; Waller, Richard, active 1665-1705, translator
Publisher: Printed for R. Smith, at the Angel and Bible without Temple Barr
Published: 1702
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
Subjects: Zoology; Pre-Linnean works; Early works to 1800; Natural history; Geology; Astronomy
Other titles: Measure of the earth
Work titles: Description anatomique de divers animaux
Notes: Translated by Alexander Pitfield from the French work by Claude Perrault, first published in 1669 under the title: 'Description anatomique d'un caméleon', and later (in 1682) under the title: 'Description anatomique de divers animaux.' The 'Account' was translated by Richard Waller.

Includes engraved title title.

Errata notes on leaf 2L and p. 40, at end.

Includes index; printed marginal notes.

George S. Huntington Library.

English short title catalogue (ESTC), T113853

In English translated from French.