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 ...
By: by John Hill.
Series: Landmarks of science
Publisher: T. Osborne
Published: 1748
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Biology -- Early works to 1800.; Natural history.; Mineralogy -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: Sub-title: 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 medicins, &c, of former ages in a series of critical enquiries into the materia medica of the ancient Greeks.

Master microform held by: Readex.

Includes indexes.

Microfiche. New York, N.Y. Readex Microprint Corporation, [1985?] (Landmarks of science)
Table of contents: title: v. 1. The history of fossils; title: v. 2. A history of plants; title: v. 3. An history of animals.