Perrault (Claude)] The Natural History of Animals, containing the anatomical description of several creatures dissected by the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, translated by Alexander Pitfield and Richard Waller first English edition, fine engraved frontispiece and 35 plates, a bright, clean copy, ink ownership inscription of David Skene to title, contemporary half calf, upper cover detached, rubbed and a little worn, folio, R.Smith, 1702. ⁂ Ink ownership inscription likely that of David Skene (1731-1770), doctor and naturalist, correspondent of Linnaeus and founder, along with George Campbell and John Gregory of the Aberdeen Philosophical Society.
Perrault (Claude)] The Natural History of Animals, containing the anatomical description of several creatures dissected by the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, translated by Alexander Pitfield and Richard Waller first English edition, fine engraved frontispiece and 35 plates, a bright, clean copy, ink ownership inscription of David Skene to title, contemporary half calf, upper cover detached, rubbed and a little worn, folio, R.Smith, 1702. ⁂ Ink ownership inscription likely that of David Skene (1731-1770), doctor and naturalist, correspondent of Linnaeus and founder, along with George Campbell and John Gregory of the Aberdeen Philosophical Society.
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