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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.

Thematic Classifications

Catalog MetadataReference Information
Entry Number#13257
Permanent Linkhttps://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/15522
Author Bio LinkWikipedia ↗
External URLornithologia-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

Geographic Context

Publication place: London