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Record Nr.

UNISA996386527503316

Autore

Sibbald Robert, Sir, <1641-1722.>

Titolo

Scotland illustrated, or, An essay of natural history [[electronic resource] ] : in which are exquisitely displayed the nature of the country, the dispositions and manners of the inhabitants, and the various diseases incident to them, and likewise their proper method of cure resulting from their native medicines : and the manifold productions of nature in its three-fold kingdom, (viz.) vegetable, animal and mineral, dispersed throughout the northern part of Great Brittain, which makes up the most ancient kingdom of Scotland, are now exactly collected and published together, and their various uses, (especialy medicinal and mechanical, for the necessity as well as the accommodation of life) : clearly laid open to all : illustrated with near fifty copper plates, being the work of twenty years / / published by the command of the Most Illustrious Monarch Charles II, King of Great Britain, &c. by Sir R. Sibbald .

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Printed by J.K., J.S. and J.C., and are to be sold by Dorman Newman ..., 1684

Descrizione fisica

368 p. in various pagings, [20] leaves of plates : ill

Soggetti

Natural history - Scotland

Medicine - Scotland

Scotland Description and travel

Lingua di pubblicazione

Latino

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Text in Latin.

Added t.p.: Scotia illustrata, sive, Prodromus historiæ naturalis.

Each of the 3 parts has special t.p. and separate paging.

Includes indices.

Reproduction of original in the Cambridge University Library.

Nota di contenuto

[Pt. 1] Nuncius Scoto-Britannus, sive, Admonitio de Atlante Scotico seu descriptione Scotiæ antiquæ et modernæ. 1683 -- Pt. 2, t. 1. De plantis Scotiæ. 1684 -- Pt. 2, t. 2. De animalibus Scotiæ tam feris quam domesticis et de mineralibus metallis et marinis Scotiæ. 1684.



Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0021