A new and accurate system of natural history.

Stock ID 44443 A new and accurate system of natural history. R. Brookes.

London: J. Newbery, 1763. Small octavo, uncoloured plates. Contemporary full calf (worn), all volumes rebacked with red label, owner's signature ("Isaac Hitchcock 1763") in each volume.

Volume one: The natural history of quadrapedes, including amphibious animals, frogs, and lizards, with their properties and uses in medicine.
Volume two: The natural history of birds: with the method of bringing up and managing those of the singing kind.
Volume three: The natural history of the fishes and serpents, including sea-turtles, crustaceous, and shell fishes, with their medicinal uses.
Volume four: The history of insects, with their uses in medicine.
Volume five: The history of waters, earths, stones, fossils, and minerals; with their virtues, properties, and medicinal uses: to which is added, the method in which Linnaeus has treated these subjects.
Volume six: The history of vegetables, as well foreign as indigenous, including an account of the roots, barks, woods, leaves, flowers, fruits, seeds, refins, gums, and conscreted juices...

BM(NH) p. 257.

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