Holdings Information

Bibliographic Record Display

• Author/Creator:Donovan, E. (Edward), 1768-1837.
  
• Title:Instructions for collecting and preserving various subjects of natural history, as animals, birds, reptiles, shells, corals plants, &c : together with a treatise on the management of insects in their several states / selected from the best authorities by E. Donovan., F.L.S. author of the Natural histories of British birds, fishes, insects, &c.
  
• Edition:The second edition.
  
• Published/Created:London : Sold by F.C. and J. Rivington, No. 62, St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1805.
  
• Physical Description:[4], 86 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
  

• Yale Holdings

  Holdings Record Display

  • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
    Request for use in the YCBA Study Room
    
    
  • Call Number: QL690.G7 B47 copy 4
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
    

   
• Local Notes:BAC: British Art Center copy has bookplates of Dufferin V. Claneboye. The volume inscribed: William Pole Thornhill. 22nd Dec. 1871. From Bickens £ 3-10-0. Bound with BAC copy 4 of: Figures of British land birds, engraved on wood by T. Bewick. Newcastle upon Tyne, 1800.
  
• Notes:Illustrations unsigned.
  "Bye and Law, printers, St. John's Square."--T.p. verso.
  Signatures: [pi]² B-L⁴ M³.
  
• Format:Book
• Subjects:Natural history--Great Britain.
  Taxidermy--Great Britain.
  Zoological specimens--Collection and preservation.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Chron.--1805.
  Engraving--Specimens--1805.
  Claneboye, Dufferin V.--Bookplate.
  Thornhill, William Pole--Autograph, 22nd Dec. 1871.
  Bye and Law--Printer.
  F. C. and J. Rivington--Bookseller.
  
• Also listed under:F., C. and J. Rivington (Firm), bookseller.
  Bye and Law, printer.