- A history of British birds / by Thomas Bewick.
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- Rare Books
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- Created:
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- 1847-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Date created:
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- 1847
- Extent:
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- 2 v. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Identifier:
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- ark:/88435/3197xr388
- Creator:
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- Bewick, Thomas, 1753-1828
- Language:
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- English
- Publisher:
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- Newcastle : Printed by J. Blackwell and Co., for R.E. Bewick ; London : sold by him, Longman & Co., 1847.
- Edm rights:
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- No Known Copyright
- Range label:
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- Logical
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- Call number:
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- NE642.B4 A36
- NE642.B4 A32
- Format:
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- Book
- Description:
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- Letterpress: vol. I by Ralph Beilby, revised by Bewick; vol. II erroneously attributed to Henry Cotes who revised Bewick's text. Cf. Roscoe p. 71-73.
- Synopsis (vol. I, xxxvi p. at end) and revision of nomenclature by John Hancock. Cf. publisher's advertisement, vol. I p. [xli].
- Title vignettes; head- and tail-pieces. In this edition are published for the first time vignettes designed for Bewick's History of British Fishes. Cf. publisher's advertisement, vol. I p. [xli].
- Subject:
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- Birds—Great Britain
- Spatial:
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- Great Britain
- Contributor:
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- Beilby, Ralph, 1744-1817
- Cotes, Henry
- Hancock, John, 1808-1890
- Author:
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- Bewick, Thomas, 1753-1828
- Location:
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- Special Collections NE642.B4 A36
- Special Collections NE642.B4 A32
- Marquand Library NE642.B4 A36
- Marquand Library NE642.B4 A32
- Scopenote:
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- Atlas: Heron feather
- Contents:
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- vol. 1. History and description of land birds
- vol. 2. History and description of water birds.
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