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ELLIS, John (1710-1776). An Essay towards a

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ELLIS, John (1710-1776). An Essay towards a

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ELLIS, John (1710-1776). An Essay towards a Natural History of the Corallines and other Marine Productions...Commonly Found on the Coasts of Great Britain and Ireland. London: for the author, 1755.

4to (260 x 203 mm). Engraved frontispiece, 40 engraved plates (6 folding). (Some offsetting or light browning.) Modern quarter calf.

FIRST EDITION, including an additional unnumbered plate with the earliest depiction of Cuff's aquatic microscope not called for in Nissen. Ellis includes a description of a large octopus observed near the North Pole by a whaling party in the summer of 1753. Nissen ZBI 1281.

Property from the Collection of Norman and Florence Blitch

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Name: ELLIS, John (1710-1776). An Essay towards a
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