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The animal kingdom, or zoological system, of the celebrated Sir Charles Linnæus: Mammalia : containing a complete systematic description, arrangement, and nomenclature, of all the known species and varieties of the mammalia, or animals which give suck to their young
1792, Printed for A. Strahan, and T. Cadell, London, and W. Creech, Edinburgh
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Translation of: Systema naturae, pts. 1-2, 13th ed. (edited by F. Gmelin). Leipzig : Impensis G.E. Beer, 1788-[1789].
Also contains Class II, Birds, with special half-title (p. [401]-644); the pagination of this part is continuous from pt. 1.
A printed errata slip, explaining the publisher's intention of issuing the remainder of the incomplete Systematic catalogue of birds (i.e. the missing section, p. 433-468) at a later time, is inserted between p. 432 and p. 469.
No more published.
The plates are engraved by J. Archer.
Compare with the J. Murray & R. Faulder 1792 (London) ed., cited in B.H. Soulsby, Linnaeus (2nd ed.), no. 122.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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SCNHRB copy 39088010382406 has stamp on t.p.: Library, U.S. National Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Jun. 26, 1890; accession no. 136640; with some pencil annotations and markings; ms. ink autograph of a former owner, G. Kinnear, is on t.p.
SCNHRB copy imperfect?: Half-title leaf (p. [i]-ii) wanting?
SCNHRB copy has later burgundy cloth binding with gilt-lettered spine; faux marbled endpapers; and marbled edges.
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