The animal kingdom, or zoological system, of the celebrated Sir Charles Linnæus. Class I, Mammalia : 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 / being a translation of that part of the Systema Naturæ, as lately published, with great improvements, by Professor Gmelin ...
xii, 32, [31], 34-432, 469-644 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm. (4to)
Type:
Classification
Date:
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.
Also available online.
Elecresource
SCNHRB copy 39088010382406 has stamp on t.p.: Library, U.S. National Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Jun. 26, 1890; accession no. 136640; with some pencil annotations and markings; ms. ink autograph of a former owner, G. Kinnear, is on t.p.
