- Visits to the Leverian Museum : containing an account of several of its principal curiosities, both of nature and art ; intended for the instruction of young persons in the first principles of natural history
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- 1805-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- xii, 163, [5] p., [1] 1 fold-out leaf of plates : ill. (engraving) ; 14 cm.
- Identifier:
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- ark:/88435/8623j4662
- Language:
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- English
- Publisher:
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- London : Printed for Tabart and Co. at the Juvenile Library, No. 157 New Bond-street, [1805] ([London] : Heney, printer, Banner-Square)
- 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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- Eng 18 34068
- Format:
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- Book
- Type:
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- Publishers' catalogs
- Juvenile literature
- Description:
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- Fold-out engraved frontis. (15 x 20 cm. unfolded) of Leverian Museum rotunda, signed "S. Potter, sc."; backed with (possibly later) fabric; undated unlike that cited by Moon (which is dated Nov. 12, 1805)
- Preface signed by Anthony Ella.
- Publisher's catalog on [5] p. at end listing 31 numbered titles: "instructive and superior books, for children and young persons of both sexes, [that] have just been published."
- Cotsen copy: "John Lawson"--Printed bookplate on front pastedown.
- Subject:
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- Leverian Museum (London, England).
- Museums—History—19th century
- Natural history—Juvenile literature
- Publishers' catalogs—19th century
- Title sort:
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- Visits to the Leverian Museum : containing an account of several of its principal curiosities, both of nature and art ; intended for the instruction of young persons in the first principles of natural history.
- Spatial:
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- England
- Binding note:
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- Pub. quarter red roan over marbled paper bds.
- Cotsen copy: Offprinting from another work, dated 1807, onto marbled paper upper and lower covers.
- Contributor:
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- Tabart and Co.
- Date:
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- 1805
- Abstract:
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- Description of the collection founded by Ashton Lever, "an invaluable collection of curiosities" (p. [iii]), presented in the form of a narrative tour given by Anthony Ella to Henry Morton.
- Location:
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- CTSN Eng 18 34068
- References:
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- Moon, M. Tabart's juvenile library, 32
- Alternative:
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- Leverian Museum : two shillings
- Printer:
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- Heney, W. (William), fl. 1805-1813
- Indexed by:
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- Altick, Richard D. Shows of London, p. 28-33
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