Some Memoirs of the Life and Works of George Edwards Fellow of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies. ...

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London: Printed for J. Robson 1776. 4to. Orig. half calf over rubbed marbled paper boards with matching endpapers. A.e.g. (ii 38pp.). With engrv. portrait and 4 engrv. plates of which 3 are folded depicting (1: The narrow Beak'd Crocodile of the Ganges; 2: The Argus of Luen Pheasant; and 3: The Snake Eater). BOUND WITH: A Catalogue of the Birds Beasts Fishes Insects Plants &c contained in Edwards's Natural History ... With their Latin Names by Sir C. Linnaeus. Lond. 1776. (16pp.). A fine early treatise.