"Perry's Arcana"--an overlooked work
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Language:
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English
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Location:
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London
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Date:
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1811
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Author:
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Perry, George, b. 1771
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Busby, Thomas Lord
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Braikenridge, George Weare, 1775-1856
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Richmond, Charles Wallace, 1868-1932
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Mathews, Gregory M. (Gregory Macalister),, 1876-1949
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Genre:
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Natural history
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Pictorial works
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Publisher:
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Printed by George Smeeton for James Stratford
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Tagged Species:
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animal
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animals
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called
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fish
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sea
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Arcana, or, The museum of natural history
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containing the most recent discovered objects : embellished with coloured
plates, and corresponding descriptions : with extracts relating to animals,
and remarks of celebrated travellers; combining a general survey of nature
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Arcana
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Museum of natural history
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Perry's Arcanae naturae
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"Perry's Arcana"--an overlooked work
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Perry, George
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b. 1771
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Busby, Thomas Lord
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engraver.
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Braikenridge, George Weare
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1775-1856
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former owner.
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Richmond, Charles Wallace
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1868-1932
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1811
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1 v. (unpaged), [84] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
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Zoology -- Ornithology -- Entomology -- Ichthyology -- Botany -- Conchology --
Extracts from Dr. Winterbottom's travels -- Mr. Patterson's travels in Africa
-- Extract of a tour, by Mr. Glas -- Extracts from Barrow's travels in China.
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Dedication leaf is signed George Perry.
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The work was issued in parts, and probably began to appear in 1810, for the
earlier plates are marked as published on Jan. 1st of that year.
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Plates designed by G. Perry and engraved by T.L. Busby.
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Plates are hand-colored.
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extracted picklist 20081216 BHLEX
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Natural history
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