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Illustrations from the Biodiversity Heritage Library’s book of the week:- Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata descriptio, et iconibus artificiosissimis expressio, per universam physices historiam : Opus, cui, in hoc rerum genere, nullum par exstitit , an 18th century catalog of the natural history collections of the Dutch apothecary Albertus Seba.
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Gaguedi by Library & Archives @ Royal Ontario Museum on Flickr.
Author: Bruce, James, 1730-1794.
Title: Select Specimens of Natural History, Collected in Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in Egypt, Arabia, Abyssinia, and Nubia.
Imprint: Edinburgh : Printed by J. Ruthven, for G. G. J. and J. Robinson …, 1790.
Physical Description: 1 print : engraving ; plate mark 220 x 280 mm on leaf 23 x 30 cm.
Page: Interleaved p. 52-53.
Call Number: DT377 .B887 1790 V.5 Rare Book -
Ashkoko - Hyrax by Library & Archives @ Royal Ontario Museum on Flickr.
Author: Bruce, James, 1730-1794.
Title: Select Specimens of Natural History, Collected in Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in Egypt, Arabia, Abyssinia, and Nubia.
Imprint: Edinburgh : Printed by J. Ruthven, for G. G. J. and J. Robinson …, 1790.
Physical Description: 1 print : engraving ; plate mark 220 x 280 mm on leaf 23 x 30 cm.
Page: Interleaved p. 138-139.
Call Number: DT377 .B887 1790 V.5 Rare Book
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Jerboa. by Library & Archives @ Royal Ontario Museum on Flickr.
Author: Bruce, James, 1730-1794.
Title: Select Specimens of Natural History, Collected in Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in Egypt, Arabia, Abyssinia, and Nubia.
Imprint: Edinburgh : Printed by J. Ruthven, for G. G. J. and J. Robinson …, 1790.
Physical Description: 1 print : engraving ; plate mark 220 x 280 mm on leaf 23 x 30 cm.
Page: Interleaved p. 120-121..
Call Number: DT377 .B887 1790 V.5 Rare Book -
Tsaltsalya, El Adda. by Library & Archives @ Royal Ontario Museum on Flickr.
Author: Bruce, James, 1730-1794.
Title: Select Specimens of Natural History, Collected in Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in Egypt, Arabia, Abyssinia, and Nubia.
Imprint: Edinburgh : Printed by J. Ruthven, for G. G. J. and J. Robinson …, 1790.
Physical Description: 1 print : engraving ; plate mark 220 x 280 mm on leaf 23 x 30 cm.
Page: Interleaved p. 188-189.
Call Number: DT377 .B887 1790 V.5 Rare Book
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Cerastes. by Library & Archives @ Royal Ontario Museum on Flickr.
Author: Bruce, James, 1730-1794.
Title: Select Specimens of Natural History, Collected in Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in Egypt, Arabia, Abyssinia, and Nubia.
Imprint: Edinburgh : Printed by J. Ruthven, for G. G. J. and J. Robinson …, 1790.
Physical Description: 1 print : engraving ; plate mark 220 x 280 mm on leaf 23 x 30 cm.
Page: Interleaved p. 198-199..
Call Number: DT377 .B887 1790 V.5 Rare Book
Note: Title from illustration. -
Rhinoceros of Africa. by Library & Archives @ Royal Ontario Museum on Flickr.
Author: Bruce, James, 1730-1794.
Title: Select Specimens of Natural History, Collected in Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in Egypt, Arabia, Abyssinia, and Nubia.
Imprint: Edinburgh : Printed by J. Ruthven, for G. G. J. and J. Robinson …, 1790.
Physical Description: 1 print : engraving ; plate mark 220 x 280 mm on leaf 23 x 30 cm.
Page: Interleaved p. 84-85.
Call Number: DT377 .B887 1790 V.5 Rare Book -
Fennec by Library & Archives @ Royal Ontario Museum on Flickr.
Author: Bruce, James, 1730-1794.
Title: Select Specimens of Natural History, Collected in Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in Egypt, Arabia, Abyssinia, and Nubia.
Imprint: Edinburgh : Printed by J. Ruthven, for G. G. J. and J. Robinson …, 1790.
Physical Description: 1 print : engraving ; plate mark 220 x 280 mm on leaf 23 x 30 cm.
Page: Interleaved p. 128-129.
Call Number: DT377 .B887 1790 V.5 Rare Book
![[covet, miga, tolombo, &c.] by Library & Archives @ Royal Ontario Museum on Flickr.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/fb61033e711488b0ac5c4545b171abdc/tumblr_mkfe4v1hIy1qgzqeto1_500.jpg)







