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A.Millar, J.& J.Rivington, R.& J.Dodsley, 1755, 1st edition.Original boards, rebacked with gilt title.V.g./No Jacket.Original speckled leather boards, rebacked with gilt title on spine.Bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (of Bierley, Bradford, Yorkshire).The usual minor offsetting of printed text, wormhole 9mm from margin of paper (not affecting plates or text).xvii, [10], 103 [1] pp; 39 engraved plates, some folding, including the frontispiece and the plate of Cuff""s aquatic microscope.Plate XXXVIII, which is present in some copies but not this one, is not mentioned within the Contents.The plates were engraved by James Kirk, J.Mynde and H.Roberts after original drawings by Georg Dionysius Ehret.A highly significant book in the field of marine zoology, since Ellis was the first to recognise that hydroids were animal in nature.ESTC ref.: T144774. In English, Latin.

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