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Book fragment: Title page, dedication page, &
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Book fragment: Title page, dedication page, &

Date1758
Artist/Maker George Edwards (1694 - 1773)
OriginEngland, London
MediumBlack & white line engraving and letterpress.
DimensionsOH: 11 3/8" Opened W: 17 1/8"
Credit LineGift of an Anonymous Donor
Object number1998-14
DescriptionTitle page, dedication page, and portrait fro from George Edward's GLEANINGS OF NATURAL HISTORY, London...
Label TextAmong the few pages contained in this book fragment from George Edwards’s Gleanings of Natural History are the title page, a page with his portrait, and a page inscribed by Edwards to Peter Collinson, fellow of the Royal Society and well-known patron of 18th-century natural history studies. The inscription reads, “From the Author To his much esteemed Friend Peter Collinson Esqr, F.R.S.”
ProvenancePurchased by donor from Robert Hunter at Period Designs, Yorktown, Virginia.
Image Not Available for The Ornithology of Francis Willughby...Wherein All the Birds hitherto known...are accurately described
The Ornithology of Francis Willughby...Wherein All the Birds hitherto known...are accurately described
1678
DS1996-0284
The WHIP-POOR-WILL, or lesser GOAT-SUCKER.
1746
2023-17,1A&B, Book
A Natural History of Uncommon Birds, and of Some Other Rare and Undescribed Animals, Quadrupeds, Reptiles, Fishes, Insects, &c. (Volume One)
1794-1802
Book 2017-212
The HISTORY of the British Plantations in AMERICA. WITH A Chronological ACCOUNT of the most remarkable Things, which happen'd to the first ADVENTURERS in their several Discoveries of that New World. Part I. Containing the History of Virginia; with Remarks on the Trade and Commerce of that Colony
1738
DS2004-0281; map
"Edwards's and Albin's Originals", 95 drawings or prints on 92 leaves.
1760-1770
1998-10, Document
THE FORM for PROCEEDING to the ROYAL CORONATION Of Their Most Excellent MAJESTIES King GEORGE III AND Queen CHARLOTTE
1761
1950-221, Print
The Magnificent Form usualy observed in the Procession to the Coronation of the Kings & Queens of England
1750-1764
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Amusement for John Bull & his Cousin Paddy, or, the Gambols of the American Buffalo, in S.t James's Street.
May 1, 1783
2020-346,13, Print
Title Page: Twelve Months of Flowers
1749
Book 2017-199
THE GENERALL HISTORIE OF Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Ifles: with the names of the Adventurers, Planters, and Governours from their firft beginning. An.o. 1584. to this prefent 1624.
1624
2023-17,3, Book
A Natural History of Uncommon Birds, and of Some Other Rare and Undescribed Animals, Quadrupeds, Reptiles, Fishes, Insects, &c. (Volume Three)
1794-1802
2023-17,2, Book
A Natural History of Uncommon Birds, and of Some Other Rare and Undescribed Animals, Quadrupeds, Reptiles, Fishes, Insects, &c. (Volume Two)
1794-1802