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  Memoir's for a natural history of animals containing the anatomical descriptions of several creatures dissected by the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris / Englished by Alexander Pitfeild ... ; to which is added an account of the measure of a degree of a great circle of the earth, published by the same Academy and Englished by Richard Waller ...
  Date of publication:
  1688
  

  Author(s):

  Perrault, Claude, 1613-1688. ; Pitfield, Alexander, 1658-1728. ; Waller, Richard. ; Académie royale des sciences (France)
  Description:
  Translation of: Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire naturelle des animaux. "The measure of the earth" has separate t.p. Translation of: Mesure de la terre. Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.
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  The history of brutes, or, A description of living creatures wherein the nature and properties of four-footed beasts are at large described / by Wolfgangus Franzius ... ; and now rendred into English by N.W.
  Date of publication:
  1670
  

  Author(s):

  Franz, Wolfgang, 1564-1628. ; N. W.
  Description:
  Translation of: Historia animalium sacra. Reproduction of original in Yale University Library.
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  The history of four-footed beasts and serpents describing at large their true and lively figure, their several names, conditions, kinds, virtues ... countries of their breed, their love and hatred to mankind, and the wonderful work by Edward Topsell ; whereunto is now added, The theater of insects, or, Lesser living creatures ... by T. Muffet ...
  Date of publication:
  1658
  

  Author(s):

  Topsell, Edward, 1572-1625? ; Topsell, Edward, 1572-1625? Historie of serpents. ; Gesner, Konrad, 1516-1565. Historia animalium Liber 1. English. ; Gesner, Konrad, 1516-1565. Historia animalium Liber 5. English. ; Moffett, Thomas, 1553-1604. Insectorum sive minimorum animalium theatrum. English. ; Rowland, John, M.D.
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  Vol. 1 is largely a translation of books 1 and 5 of: Historia animalium / Konrad Gesner, with additions by Topsell. The second part has title: The history of serpents, or, The second book of living creatures / Edward ...
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  The historie of foure-footed beastes Describing the true and liuely figure of euery beast, with a discourse of their seuerall names, conditions, kindes, vertues (both naturall and medicinall) countries of their breed, their loue and hate to mankinde, and the wonderfull worke of God in their creation, preseruation, and destruction. Necessary for all diuines and students, because the story of euery beast is amplified with narrations out of Scriptures, fathers, phylosophers, physitians, and poets: wherein are declared diuers hyerogliphicks, emblems, epigrams, and other good histories, collected out of all the volumes of Conradus Gesner, and all other writers to this present day. By Edward Topsell.
  Date of publication:
  1607
  

  Author(s):

  Topsell, Edward, 1572-1625?
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  In the title, the first word is xylographic. Title page varies: with cut of hyena (used for sea wolf on p. 749) or of gorgon (most copies; not illustrated in the text pp. 162-3); examples of both at British Library. B1, ...
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  The historie of serpents. Or, The second booke of liuing creatures wherein is contained their diuine, naturall, and morall descriptions, with their liuely figures, names, conditions, kindes and natures of all venemous beasts: with their seuerall poysons and antidotes; their deepe hatred to mankind, and the wonderfull worke of God in their creation, and destruction. Necessary and profitable to all sorts of men: collected out of diuine scriptures, fathers, phylosophers, physitians, and poets: amplified with sundry accidentall histories, hierogliphicks, epigrams, emblems, and ænigmaticall obseruations. By Edvvard Topsell.
  Date of publication:
  1608
  

  Author(s):

  Topsell, Edward, 1572-1625?
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  In the title, the first word is xylographic. Leaves 2E3,4 are in two settings: E3v line 18 has either "waters, as in a Boate." or "in a boate." --STC. Reproduction of the original in the University of Michigan. Library.
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  A description of the nature of four-footed beasts with their figures en[graven in brass] / written in Latin by Dr. John Johnston ; translated into English by J.P.
  Date of publication:
  1678
  

  Author(s):

  Jonstonus, Joannes, 1603-1675. ; J. P.
  Description:
  Translation of: Historiae naturalis de quadrupetibus [sic], which forms part of his work on animals. Reproduction of original in Harvard University Libraries. Marginal notes. Imperfect: some letters missing on t.p.
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