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A Description of more than three hundred animals,... forming a compendium of natural history / [by Thomas Boreman]. 1812
RCIN 1057056
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Thomas Boreman was an eighteenth-century bookseller specialising in literature for children. Little is known of his life but he was active between 1730 and 1743. This book, Three hundred animals, was the first of his works, first printed in 1730. Boreman’s books were popular until the nineteenth century. They were affordable, featuring cheap woodcuts and the text consisting mainly of passages collected from the works of other writers.
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A Description of more than three hundred animals, including quadrupeds, fishes, serpents and insects; forming a compendium of natural history, confirmed by actual and personal observations, with original remarks, and interesting quotations from ancient and modern authors; to which is subjoined a new and curious appendix upon allegorical and fabulous animals. The whole illustrated by elegant and appropriate figures copied from natures and engraved on wood with taste and accuracy / [Thomas Boreman] ; A new edition carefully revised, corrected and considerably augmented by ADM HFSA [Ange Denis MacQuin]
