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Description of three hundred animals, viz. beasts, birds, fishes, serpents, and insects

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Description of three hundred animals, viz. beasts, birds, fishes, serpents, and insects
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Description	With a particular account of the manner of their catching of whales in Greenland. Extracted from the best authors
Shelfmark	ABS.1.82.149
Additional NLS resources:	Library catalogue record
Attribution and copyright:	Public Domain - This work is free of known copyright restrictions. For details visit our copyright page. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

Form / genre:	Written and printed matter > Books
Dates / events:	1774 [Date printed]
Places:	Europe > United Kingdom > England > Greater London > London (inhabited place) [Place printed] North and Central America > Greenland (dependent state) [Place in text]
Subject / content:	Illustrations (layout features) Animals Whaling Children's literature
Person / organisation:	Boreman, Thomas, 18th century [Author] J. and F. Rivington (Firm) [Bookseller]
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Antiquarian books of Scotland
Description	Thousands of printed books from the Antiquarian Books of Scotland collection which dates from 1641 to the 1980s. The collection consists of 14,800 books which were published in Scotland or have a Scottish connection, e.g. through the author, printer or owner. Subjects covered include sport, education, diseases, adventure, occupations, Jacobites, politics and religion. Among the 29 languages represented are English, Gaelic, Italian, French, Russian and Swedish.