Fauna boreali-americana, or, The zoology of the northern parts of British America : containing descriptions of the objects of natural history collected on the late northern land expeditions under command of Captain Sir John Franklin, R.N
Fauna boreali-americana
Northern zoology
Richardson's Fauna boreali-americana
Richardson's Zoology
Zoology of the northern parts of British America
Richardson, John, Sir,
1787-1865
creator
Swainson, William,
1789-1855
contributor
Kirby, William,
1759-1850
contributor
Sowerby, James de Carle,
1787-1871
contributor
Franklin, John, Sir,
1786-1847
contributor
Hawkins, B. Waterhouse (Benjamin Waterhouse),
1807-1889
ill.
contributor
Landseer, Thomas,
1795-1880
ill.
contributor
Curtis, Charles M.,
approximately 1795-1839
ill.
contributor
Wagstaff, Charles Edward,
1808-1850
engraver.
contributor
Graf & Soret,
printer of plates.
contributor
Day & Haghe,
printer of plates.
contributor
text
book
London
John Murray
1829-1837
1829
1837
ENG
Vol. 1: xlvi, 300 p., [28] leaves of plates; v. 2: lxvi, 523 p., [50] leaves of plates; v. 3: xv, 327 p., [23] leaves of plates; v. 4: xxxix, 325 p., 8 leaves of plates.
Plates in pt. 2 and 4, and some in pt. 3 are colored.
Plates in pt. 3 numbered 74-97; plates in other pts. have miscellaneous numbering.
"Published under the authority of the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for Colonial Affairs."
Running title: Northern zoology.
Imprint varies: v. 3, London : R. Bentley; v. 4, Norwich : J. Fletcher : And sold in London by Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans.
Vol. 4 also issued with individual t.p.: Entomologia boreali americana.
Pt. 1. The quadrupeds / J. Richardson -- pt. 2. The birds / W. Swainson and J. Richardson -- pt. 3. The fish / J. Richardson. [Freshwater mollusca / J. de C. Sowerby] -- pt. 4. The insects / W. Kirby.
Title varies.
Part 4 was also issued with special title: Entomologia boreali americana ... by the Rev. William Kirby, Norwich, 1837.
Plates illustrated by Thomas Landseer, C.M. Curtis, B. Waterhouse Hawkins, J. de C. Sowerby, William Swainson, and Charles Hamilton Smith, and engraved by C.E. Wagstaff. Some plates in pt. 4 printed by Graf & Soret and by Day & Haghe.
Imprint varies: v. 2: London, J. Murray, 1831; v. 3: London, R. Bentley, 1836; v. 4: Norwich, J. Fletcher, and sold in London by Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1837.
"London: Printed by William Clowes"--Verso of t.p.
Plates sometimes bound out of consecutive numerical order, as issued.
Pt. 1. The quadrupeds / J. Richardson -- pt. 2. The birds / W. Swainson and J. Richardson -- pt. 3. The fish / J. Richardson. [Freshwater mollusca / J. de C. Sowerby] -- pt. 4. The insects / W. Kirby.
Sabin | 71026-71029
Wagner-Camp (4th ed.) | 39
Nissen, C. Zoologische Buchillustration, | I, 3385
Arctic regions
Canada
Zoology
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