Memoirs of British Quadrupeds, Illustrative Principally of Their Habits of Life, Instincts, Sagacity, and Uses to Mankind. Arranged According to the System of Linnaeus. With Engravings from Original Drawings, Executed by MR. SAMUEL HOWITT.
by BINGLEY, Rev. W
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Printed for Darton and Harvey, and others. London. 1809. . pp. xii, (viii), 243, (i) blank. Part I; (245)-459, (i) blank; 70, (x) Index. 71 fine engraved plates. Contemporary diced russia, rebacked with the old spine relaid, the prelims misbound, the plate numbering erratic and the numbers 7, 8, and 22 not listed but all the plates are present, a very nice copy ex libris RICHARD FREEMAN with his bibliographical notes at the front. *See FREEMAN BNHB #323.
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- Memoirs of British Quadrupeds, Illustrative Principally of Their Habits of Life, Instincts, Sagacity, and Uses to Mankind. Arranged According to the System of Linnaeus. With Engravings from Original Drawings, Executed by MR. SAMUEL HOWITT.
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- BINGLEY, Rev. W
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- Printed for Darton and Harvey, and others. London. 1809.
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