Vivarium Naturæ or the Naturalist's Miscellany. ... of 25; Volume 8

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British Library

T197337

Issued in parts from 1789 and here collected into more or less annual volumes. Titlepage to vol. 1 is engraved; other volume titlepages, which are undated except for the final volume titlepage, in letterpress are in parallel Latin and English: the English beginning with 'To [dedicatee] this [volume number] volume of the Naturalist's miscellany ...' The indexes to vols. 16-23 each have the colophon: 'Printed by B. M'Millan, ...' The final volume, dated 1813, is an index entitled 'General indexes, in Latin and English, of the subjects contained in the twenty-four volumes of The naturalist's miscellany; ... London: printed for, and published by, Elizabeth Nodder & Son; by B. McMillan'.

London : printed for Nodder & Co., 1790-1813. 25v.,plates ; 8°