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Synopsis Of The Mewcastle Museum Later The Allan, Formerly The Tunstall, Or Wycliffe Museum: To Wich are Prefixed Memoirs Of Mr. Tunstall, The Founder, And Of Mr. Allan, The Late Proprietor, Of the Collectin; With Occasional Remarks, On the Species, By Those Gentlemen and The Editor
by Fox, George Townsend
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Later brown cloth, brown leathe spine labe lettered in gilt. Very good
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About This Item
Newcastle: J. Hodgson, 1827. First edition. Hardcover. Later brown cloth, brown leathe spine labe lettered in gilt. Very good. xxii, [2] 312 pages. 23 x 15 cm. llustrated with engraved frontispiece, folding table, 7 plates (2 of which by Thomas Bewick), and illustrations in the text. Provenance: Author to son Charles Fox with inscription dated 1830 gifted from "Mrs. Charles C. Fox dated 15 Nov. 1915. One of the most significant 18th century collections of Natural History and Ethonography. A catalogue of the museum's holdings that includes a section entitled "Utensils of Savage Nations" which includes material from New Zealand, "Owhyhee, and other Sandwich Islands," "Otaheite and Society Islands," George's Island, the Pacific Northwest, etc, including material collected during Cook's voyages, and a number of natural history specimens are described like the wombat (illustrated), the koala, and the duck-billed platypus from Australia, and an extensive foreign ornithological section which includes many specimens from the South Seas. Forbes lists only one copy and could find no references to this rare work. Some spotting or browning to plates and offsetting from plates to text. Interior contents fresh and clean. Rubbing to backstrip extremities.
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- Title
- Synopsis Of The Mewcastle Museum Later The Allan, Formerly The Tunstall, Or Wycliffe Museum: To Wich are Prefixed Memoirs Of Mr. Tunstall, The Founder, And Of Mr. Allan, The Late Proprietor, Of the Collectin; With Occasional Remarks, On the Species, By Those Gentlemen and The Editor
- Author
- Fox, George Townsend
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Later brown cloth, brown leathe spine labe lettered in gilt. Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- J. Hodgson
- Place of Publication
- Newcastle
- Date Published
- 1827
- Keywords
- Ethnography
- Bookseller catalogs
- Natural History; Science;
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