general natural history
Subtitle: or New and accurate descriptions of the animals, vegetables, and minerals, of the different parts of the world : with their virtues and uses, as far as hitherto certainly known, in medicine and mechanics : 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 medicines, &c. of former ages, in a series of critical enquiries into the materia medica of the anceint Greeks : with a great number of figures, elegantly engraved
By: by John Hill.
Contributors: Haughton, Richard (association)
Publisher: Printed for Thomas Osborne
Published: 1748
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Paleontology; Natural history -- Early works to 1800; Mineralogy -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800
Notes: Vols. 2-3 have a general t.p.; v. 3 has special t.p.: An history of animals.

Includes fold. table

Fisher copy 1: Bound in sprinkled calf with the name of Richard Laughton, Esqr. stamped in gold on the upper covers.
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