The animal kingdom, or zoological system, of the celebrated Sir Charles Linnæus
Subtitle: Mammalia : containing a complete systematic description, arrangement, and nomenclature, of all the known species and varieties of the mammalia, or animals which give suck to their young
By: being a translation of that part of the Systema Naturæ, as lately published, with great improvements, by Professor Gmelin of Goettingen ; together with numerous additions from more recent zoological writers, and illustrated with copperplates, by Robert Kerr
Contributors: Gmelin, Johann Friedrich, 1748-1804; Kerr, Robert, 1755-1813; Archer, J., fl. 1792, engraver; Kinnear, G., former owner
Publisher: Printed for A. Strahan, and T. Cadell, London, and W. Creech, Edinburgh
Published: 1792
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 644
Subjects: Mammals; Birds; Classification
Other titles: Class I, Mammalia; Class II, Birds; Mammalia; Birds; Kerr's Animal kingdom
Work titles: Systema naturae Regnum animale. pt. 1-2
Notes: Translation of: Systema naturae, pts. 1-2, 13th ed. (edited by F. Gmelin). Leipzig : Impensis G.E. Beer, 1788-[1789].

Also contains Class II, Birds, with special half-title (p. [401]-644); the pagination of this part is continuous from pt. 1.

A printed errata slip, explaining the publisher's intention of issuing the remainder of the incomplete Systematic catalogue of birds (i.e. the missing section, p. 433-468) at a later time, is inserted between p. 432 and p. 469.

No more published.

The plates are engraved by J. Archer.

Compare with the J. Murray & R. Faulder 1792 (London) ed., cited in B.H. Soulsby, Linnaeus (2nd ed.), no. 122.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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SCNHRB copy 39088010382406 has stamp on t.p.: Library, U.S. National Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Jun. 26, 1890; accession no. 136640; with some pencil annotations and markings; ms. ink autograph of a former owner, G. Kinnear, is on t.p.

SCNHRB copy imperfect?: Half-title leaf (p. [i]-[ii] (1st group)) wanting?

SCNHRB copy has later burgundy cloth binding with gilt-lettered spine; faux marbled endpapers; and marbled edges.