Details - An essay towards a natural history of the corallines, and other marine productions of the like kind : commonly found on the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland. To which is added the description of a large marine polype taken near the North Pole, by the whale-fishers, in the summer 1753

An essay towards a natural history of the corallines, and other marine productions of the like kind

Title

An essay towards a natural history of the corallines, and other marine productions of the like kind : commonly found on the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland. To which is added the description of a large marine polype taken near the North Pole, by the whale-fishers, in the summer 1753

By

Ellis, John, 1710?-1776

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

London, Printed for the author; and sold by A. Millar, in the Strand; J. and J. Rivington, in St. Paul's Church-Yard; and R. and J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, M.DCC.LV. [1755]

Notes

Names of species (diagnostic phrases) in Latin, with translation of these names into English in the unpaged section with running title: Contents (p. [2]-[10]).

Signatures: a-c⁴ d² B-O⁴ (a1 verso, c1 verso blank). Leaf H2 signed as: "H3"

Forty-one plates (six folded), numbered: Plate I (-Pl. XXXVIII.) and: Plate 39; 2 plates (frontisp., microscopical instruments) unnumbered. Plates 38-39 with explanations engraved on the plates, without letterpress text (missing in many copies).

Errata (p. [11] at front of work).

Includes some species from America.

Stafleu & Cowan, | 1661.

Nissen, C. Zoologische Buchillustration, | 1281.

Engelmann, W. Bib. historico-naturalis, | p. 576.

English short title catalogue, | T144774.

In English and Latin.