Catalogues Of The Birds Shells And Some Of The More Rare Plants Of Dorsetshire From The New And

by Richard Pulteney Thomas Rackett

$3,750 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

Contemporary boards, expertly rebacked to style with period paper Large-paper issue of the first illustrated edition of a rare catalogue of British birds, plants and shells. Richard Pulteney received his doctorate in medicine from the University of Edinburgh in 1764, before serving as the personal physician to the Earl of Bath. Following the Earl's death, he resided and practiced in Blandford, Dorset. Besides membership in a host of medical societies, Pulteney

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