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008 810424s1792 stkaf b 001 0 eng d
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm07365004
040 $aSMI$edcrb$cSMI$dUtOrBLW
041 1 $aeng$hlat
049 $aSNI1$nosds 05/10/04; recat/transf. of QL605.L75 1792 MAMM (former bc 39088002859585)
090 $aQL605$b.L75 1792
090 $aQH43$b.S9913 1792
099 $aQL605.L75 1792
100 1 $aLinné, Carl von,$d1707-1778
240 10 $aSystema naturae$pRegnum animale.$npt. 1-2.$lEnglish.$f1792
245 14 $aThe animal kingdom, or zoological system, of the celebrated Sir Charles Linnæus.$nClass I,$pMammalia :$bcontaining a complete systematic description, arrangement, and nomenclature, of all the known species and varieties of the mammalia, or animals which give suck to their young /$cbeing a translation of that part of the Systema Naturæ, as lately published, with great improvements, by Professor Gmelin of Goettingen ; together with numerous additions from more recent zoological writers, and illustrated with copperplates, by Robert Kerr.
246 30 $aClass I, Mammalia
246 30 $aClass II, Birds
246 30 $aMammalia
246 30 $aBirds
246 1 $iBinder's title:$aKerr's Animal kingdom$5DSI
260 $aEdinburgh :$bPrinted for A. Strahan, and T. Cadell, London, and W. Creech, Edinburgh,$c1792.
300 $axii, 32, [31], 34-432, 469-644 p., [10] leaves of plates :$bill. ;$c27 cm. (4to)
500 $aTranslation of: Systema naturae, pts. 1-2, 13th ed. (edited by F. Gmelin). Leipzig : Impensis G.E. Beer, 1788-[1789].
500 $aAlso contains Class II, Birds, with special half-title (p. [401]-644); the pagination of this part is continuous from pt. 1.
500 $aA printed errata slip, explaining the publisher's intention of issuing the remainder of the incomplete Systematic catalogue of birds (i.e. the missing section, p. 433-468) at a later time, is inserted between p. 432 and p. 469.
500 $aNo more published.
500 $aThe plates are engraved by J. Archer.
500 $aCompare with the J. Murray & R. Faulder 1792 (London) ed., cited in B.H. Soulsby, Linnaeus (2nd ed.), no. 122.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
583 $aextracted picklist$c20081216$zBHLEX
590 $aSCNHRB copy 39088010382406 has stamp on t.p.: Library, U.S. National Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Jun. 26, 1890; accession no. 136640; with some pencil annotations and markings; ms. ink autograph of a former owner, G. Kinnear, is on t.p.
590 $aSCNHRB copy imperfect?: Half-title leaf (p. [i]-[ii] (1st group)) wanting?
590 $aSCNHRB copy has later burgundy cloth binding with gilt-lettered spine; faux marbled endpapers; and marbled edges.
650 0 $aMammals$vClassification.
650 0 $aBirds$vClassification
700 1 $aGmelin, Johann Friedrich,$d1748-1804.
700 1 $aKerr, Robert,$d1755-1813
700 1 $aArcher, J.,$dfl. 1792,$eengraver.
700 1 $aKinnear, G.,$eformer owner.$5DSI
945 $aomas 10/14/98 corr. typo in 700/1.
945 $aosds 3/14/2003 add 700/3
945 $aosds 5/10/04 transfer from MAMM
949 $lscnh$gscnhrb$i39088010382406$nlc$trare