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382 - Perrault (Claude) Memoir's [sic] for a Natural History, first English edition, 2 parts in 1, translated by Alexander Pitfeild, additional engraved title, title in red and black, 35 engraved plates, woodcut tail-pieces, occasional foxing, endpapers browned, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, covers heavily mottled, [Wing P1667; Nissen ZBI 3125; ESTC R2399], folio, Printed by Joseph Streater, 1688.
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Perrault (Claude) Memoir's [sic] for a Natural History, first English edition, 2 parts in 1, translated by Alexander Pitfeild, additional engraved title, title in red and black, 35 engraved plates, woodcut tail-pieces, occasional foxing, endpapers browned, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, covers heavily mottled, [Wing P1667; Nissen ZBI 3125; ESTC R2399], folio, Printed by Joseph Streater, 1688. *** First English edition of an important work of comparative biology, first published by the French Académie des Sciences in 1671-1676. Memoirs was translated by Alexander Pitfeild, and The Measure of Earth (part 2, with separate title page) by Richard Waller, both Fellows of the Royal Society.
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