Memoir's [sic] for a natural history of animals
Subtitle: containing the anatomical descriptions of several creatures dissected by the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris
By: Englished by Alexander Pitfeild [i.e. Pitfield] ... ; to which is added an account of the Measure of a degree of a great circle of the earth, published by the same Academy, and Englished by Richard Waller ..
Contributors: Pitfield, Alexander, 1658-1728; Waller, Richard; Picard, M. 1620-1682.; Académie des sciences (France)
Series: Landmarks II, monographs
Publisher: Printed by Joseph Streater, and are to be sold by T. Basset ...
Published: 1688
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Translated from: fre
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 267
Subjects: Zoology -- Pre-Linnean works; Anatomy -- Early works to 1800; Arc measures -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800
Other titles: Memoirs for a natural history of animals; Measure of the earth
Work titles: Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire naturelle des animaux.
Notes: Translation of: Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire naturelle des animaux. Authorship of original French text attributed to Claude Perrault. Cf. A.A. Barbier. Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes et pseudonymes (1964 repr.), v. 3, column 250

"The measure of the earth" (with special t.p. and pagination) is a translation of: Mésure de la terre. Authorship of the original French text is attributed to Jean Picard. Cf. A.A. Barbier. Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes et pseudonymes (1964 repr.), v. 3, column 287

Errata: p. [2] of 3rd group and p. 40 of last group

Includes indexes

Microfiche. New Canaan, Conn. : Readex Microprint, [1993]. 11 microfiches. (Landmarks II).