Americana, Natural History in the Enlightenment Caribbean - ...

Hammer

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Americana, Natural History in the Enlightenment Caribbean - [Petiver (James, FRS)], Pteri-Graphia Americana, Icones continens plusquam 400 Filicum variarum Specierum, Viz. Arborescentes, Scandentes, Spinosas, Floriferas, aliasque perraras; nec non Muscos, Lichenes, Fungos, Corallia, Spongias, aliaq:e non pauca Submarina Cui adijciuntur Crustacea, Testacea, aliaque Animalia ferè omnia ex Insulis nostris Charibbæis Viz. Antego, Barbados, St. Christophers, Nevis, Jamaica &c. Figuris Ænæis, Folio incisis, XX Tabulis. A Jacobo Petiver Soc. Regal. S. Lond., first edition, [London: s.n., 1712], engraved copperplate-printed, thus to recto only, complete: 3 leaves & 20 plates of natural history specimens engraved by Sutton Nicholls, each with pasted dedication slips to the lower-margins, stitched, upper original wrapper extant only, crown folio (36cm x 23cm), [1]