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DEWHURST, Henry William
[The natural history of the oceanic inhabitants of the Artic regions. Advertisement]
Preparing for publication. The natural history of the oceanic inhabitants of the Artic regions; to which is prefixed a description of the method pursued in the capture of the Balæna mysticetus, or common Greenland whale. By Henry William Dewhurst, Esq. surgeon-accoucheur, ...
London (Place), F. Shoberl, jun.,, [1833?].
2 p. ; 33.3 cm. (2°)

Drop-head title. With a 'List Of Present Subscribers' and Shoberl's imprint on p. 2. The author's 'Address to the Public' includes a reference to an article by him in the 'Magazine of Natural History for April 1832'. Subscriptions were received by Dewhurst 'at his residence, No. 16, William Street, Waterloo Road, London.' The work, of which perhaps unsurprisingly there is no copy in Soane's Library, was published with the title-page dated 1834.

Copy Notes Inscribed in ink at the head of p. [1] Dedicated by permission to Earl Stanhope.

Binding Loose sheet.

Reference Number 2095


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