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Abrégé d'histoire naturelle : contenant la description des principaux quadrupèdes, oiseaux, poissons, serpents, reptiles et insectes / traduit de l'anglais de Mary Trumer [i.e. Trimmer] ; par M. Gerson Hesse.

Accession number
PML 83690-91
Creator
Trimmer, Mary.
Published
A Toul [France] : Chez J. Carez, imprimeur-libraire, et a Paris, rue de Seine, no. 21, 1826.
Notes
Abridged translation of: Natural history of the most remarkable quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles, and insects / Mary Trimmer; published Chiswick, 1825; "largely adapted and abridged from Bewick's A general history of quadrupeds (1799) and History of British birds (l797)" (Osborne Coll., p. 213-4); and/or a later edition of: A description of three hundred animals /Thomas Boreman, London, l736 (Freeman, R.B. British natural history books, p. 57).
Misnumbering: t. II: p. 53 for 43.
Includes index: t. II, p. [283]-287.
Errata: t. II, p. [282].
Description
2 v. (viij, 256; [4], 287, [1] p.) : ill. (wood engravings) ; 15 cm
Binding
Brown sheep, gilt.
Classification
Department