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Ornithologia Britannica: seu Avium omnium Britannicarum tam Terrrestrium quam Aquaticarum catalogus, sermone Latino, An;glico & Gallico redditus: Cui subjicitur appendix, aves Alienigenas, in Angliam raro adventientes, complectens.
Publication Details
London: Printed for the Author by J. Dixwell, 1771 CE.
This was probably the first natural history treatise published in England that employed binomial nomenclature. Semi-facsimile edition edited by Alfred Newton and published by The Willoughby Society in 1880 as Tunstall's Ornithologia Britannica. Digital facsimile of the 1880 edition from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
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| Catalog Metadata | Reference Information |
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| Entry Number | #13257 |
| Permanent Link | https://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/15522 |
| Author Bio Link | Wikipedia ↗ |
| External URL | ornithologia-britannica-seu-avium-omnium-britannicarum-tam-terrrestrium-quam-aquaticarum-catalogus-sermone-latino-aglico-gallico-redditus-cui-subjicitur-appendix-aves-alenigenas-in-angliam-raro-adventientes-complectens |
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Publication place: London