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Synopsis Of The Mewcastle Museum Later The Allan, Formerly The Tunstall, Or Wycliffe Museum: To Wich are Prefixed Memoirs Of Mr. Tunstall, The Founder, And Of Mr. Allan, The Late Proprietor, Of the Collectin; With Occasional Remarks, On the Species, By Those Gentlemen and The Editor

Synopsis Of The Mewcastle Museum Later The Allan, Formerly The Tunstall, Or Wycliffe Museum: To Wich are Prefixed Memoirs Of Mr. Tunstall, The Founder, And Of Mr. Allan, The Late Proprietor, Of the Collectin; With Occasional Remarks, On the Species, By Those Gentlemen and The Editor

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Synopsis Of The Mewcastle Museum Later The Allan, Formerly The Tunstall, Or Wycliffe Museum: To Wich are Prefixed Memoirs Of Mr. Tunstall, The Founder, And Of Mr. Allan, The Late Proprietor, Of the Collectin; With Occasional Remarks, On the Species, By Those Gentlemen and The Editor

by Fox, George Townsend

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Newcastle: J. Hodgson, 1827. First edition. Hardcover. Later brown cloth, brown leathe spine labe lettered in gilt. Very good. xxii, [2] 312 pages. 23 x 15 cm. llustrated with engraved frontispiece, folding table, 7 plates (2 of which by Thomas Bewick), and illustrations in the text. Provenance: Author to son Charles Fox with inscription dated 1830 gifted from "Mrs. Charles C. Fox dated 15 Nov. 1915. One of the most significant 18th century collections of Natural History and Ethonography. A catalogue of the museum's holdings that includes a section entitled "Utensils of Savage Nations" which includes material from New Zealand, "Owhyhee, and other Sandwich Islands," "Otaheite and Society Islands," George's Island, the Pacific Northwest, etc, including material collected during Cook's voyages, and a number of natural history specimens are described like the wombat (illustrated), the koala, and the duck-billed platypus from Australia, and an extensive foreign ornithological section which includes many specimens from the South Seas. Forbes lists only one copy and could find no references to this rare work. Some spotting or browning to plates and offsetting from plates to text. Interior contents fresh and clean. Rubbing to backstrip extremities.

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Title
Synopsis Of The Mewcastle Museum Later The Allan, Formerly The Tunstall, Or Wycliffe Museum: To Wich are Prefixed Memoirs Of Mr. Tunstall, The Founder, And Of Mr. Allan, The Late Proprietor, Of the Collectin; With Occasional Remarks, On the Species, By Those Gentlemen and The Editor
Author
Fox, George Townsend
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Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Later brown cloth, brown leathe spine labe lettered in gilt. Very good
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First edition
Publisher
J. Hodgson
Place of Publication
Newcastle
Date Published
1827
Keywords
Ethnography
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