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Essai sur l'histoire naturelle des corallines : et d'autres productions marines du même genre, qu'on trouve communément sur les côtes de la Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande : auquel on a joint une description d'un grand polype de mer, pris auprès du pole arctique, par des pêcheurs de baleine, pendant l'été de 1753

by: Ellis, John, 1710?-1776; Allamand, Jean Nicolas Sébastien, d. 1787; Kirk, James, engraver; Mynde, J., fl. 1740-1770, engraver; Roberts, Henry, ca. 1710-ca. 1790, engraver; Wells, John West, 1907-1994, former owner. DSI

Publication date: 1756

Topics: Ctenophora, Cnidaria, Bryozoa, Marine animals

Publisher: A La Haye : Chez Pierre de Hondt

Collection: biodiversity

Contributor: Smithsonian Libraries

Language: French

Translation revised by J.N.S. Allamand

Some plates signed: H. Roberts sculp.; James Kirk sc.; J. Mynde sc

Binder's title: Essai des coral

Signatures: *2*A-Q

Title printed in red and black

The final 3 pages are publisher's advertisements

"Description du microscope aquatique de Mr. Cuff" --P. 124-125

Errata: p. xij

extracted picklist

Stamp on frontispiece verso and t.p.: VB in circle

Bookplate: Ex libris, John W. Wells

Signed on front free endpaper: J.W. Wells, '46

Bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Gift of Ellen B. Wells in memory of John West Wells

Bound in old full leather; gilt-tooled spine; re-backed

Notes

No copyright page found. No table-of-contents pages found.

Addeddate: 2013-04-10 16:13:13

Associated-names: Allamand, Jean Nicolas Sébastien, d. 1787; Kirk, James, engraver; Mynde, J., fl. 1740-1770, engraver; Roberts, Henry, ca. 1710-ca. 1790, engraver; Wells, John West, 1907-1994, former owner