Natuurlyke historie van de koraal-gewassen, en andere dergelyke zee-lighamen, die men gemeenelyk vind op de kusten van Groot-Brittanien en Ierland
Subtitle: benevens eene beschryving van een grooten zee-polyp, in den zomer van't jaar 1753 by den Noord-Pool door de Walvis-Vangers gevonden
By: door Jan Ellis ... ; uit het Engels vertaald door Jan Tak ...
Contributors: Tak, Jan; Kirk, James, engraver; Mynde, J., fl. 1740-1770, engraver; Roberts, Henry, ca. 1710-ca. 1790, engraver; Hartmeyer, Robert, 1874-1923, former owner; Bayer, Frederick M., former owner
Publisher: By Pieter de Hondt
Published: 1756
Place of publication: In 'sGravenhage
Language: dut
Number of pages: 118
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Marine animals; Bryozoa; Cnidaria; Corals; Pictorial works; Ctenophora
Work titles: Essay towards a natural history of the corallines, and other marine productions of the like kind, commonly found on the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland
Notes: Some plates signed: H. Roberts sculp.; James Kirk sc.; J. Mynde sc.

Title printed in red and black; woodcut title vignette, head- and tail-pieces, initials; sidenotes.

Errata: at foot of p. xvj.

Signatures: *-2*⁴ A-O⁴ P⁴(-P4, blank?)

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SCNHRB copy 39088011917655 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Gift of Dr. Frederick M. Bayer. Originally with a 35mm slide of a detail from another copy of this work and note to Dr. Bayer laid-in.

SCNHRB copy has stamped on front blank: Dr. R. Hartmeyer.

SCNHRB copy has possible blank from last gathering bound before frontispiece.

SCNHRB copy has pl. XII bound following pl. XIV; pl. XXXVI bound following XXXIII.

SCNHRB copy half bound in modern orange cloth and dark blue-gray goatskin, gilt lettering on spine.