Details - The animal kingdom, or zoological system, of the celebrated Sir Charles Linnæus. containing 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

The animal kingdom, or zoological system, of the celebrated Sir Charles Linnæus

Title

The animal kingdom, or zoological system, of the celebrated Sir Charles Linnæus. containing 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 Class I Mammalia

Title Variants

Alternative: Birds

Alternative: Class I, Mammalia

Alternative: Class II, Birds

Alternative: Kerr's Animal kingdom

Alternative: Mammalia

Uniform: Systema naturae

By

Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778

Gmelin, Johann Friedrich, 1748-1804
Kerr, Robert, 1755-1813
Archer, J., active 1792- , engraver.

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

Edinburgh, Printed for A. Strahan, and T. Cadell, London, and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1792

Notes

Translation of: Systema naturae, pts. 1-2, 13th ed. (edited by F. Gmelin). Leipzig : Impensis G.E. Beer, 1788-[1789].

Also contains Class II, Birds, with special half-title (p. [401]-644); the pagination of this part is continuous from pt. 1.

A 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.

No more published.

The plates are engraved by J. Archer.

Compare with the J. Murray & R. Faulder 1792 (London) ed., cited in B.H. Soulsby, Linnaeus (2nd ed.), no. 122.