Zoonomia, or, The laws of organic life : vol. I / by Erasmus Darwin, M.D. F.R.S. author of The botanic garden.

  • Darwin, Erasmus, 1731-1802.
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Laws of organic life

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New-York : Printed by T. & J. Swords ..., 1796.

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xxxii, 10 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 11-12 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 13-14 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 15-402 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 403-414 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 415-416 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 417-433 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : color illustrations (engravings) ; 22 cm (8vo)

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"Preface to the American edition" (pp. [ix]-xxix) signed: Samuel L. Mitchill
"This volume was first published in London in 1794. T. & J. Swords intended to reprint the 2d volume, which appeared in London in 1796 (cf. 'Advertisement,' p. [434]). Instead, an edition of the 2d volume by Charles Caldwell [Evans 32017] was published in Philadelphia in 1797"--Austin
"On the ocular spectra of light and colours, by Dr. R.W. Darwin, of Shrewsbury. Re-printed, by permission, from the Philosophical Transactions. vol. lxxvi. p. 313"--pp. 394-418
Includes an index
With a half-title
The six hand colored illustrations are on leaves that are integral to the gatherings and account for the six breaks in the pagination sequence. Cf. ESTC, which describes [6] separate leaves of plates
Signatures: [A]⁴ a-c⁴ B-3L⁴ (3L4 blank). Cf. ESTC
NLM copy: lacking the blank leaf.
Film 633 reel 35 is part of Research Publications Early American Medical Imprints collection (RP reel 35, no. 617).

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Evans 30312
Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 617
Blake, J. NLM 18th cent., p. 109
ESTC (RLIN) W25004

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Microfilm. [Bethesda, Md.] : National Library of Medicine, 1958. 1 microfilm reel : negative ; 35 mm

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