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ptc-6299
Title
Reunion Giant Tortoise, artist unknown, from Academie des Sciences, Memoires for a Natural History of Animals, London, 1688
Agent (Role)
Beckett, J.
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Date
1688 (published), 1995 (photographed)
Artwork/Object Type
Illustrations
Collection/Work Relation
AMNH Library, DD-3: Académie des sciences (France), Claude Perrault, Alexander Pitfield, Richard Waller, and Thordarson Collection. 1688. Memoir's for a Natural History of Animals: Containing the Anatomical Descriptions of Several Creatures Dissected by the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris. London: Printed by Joseph Streater, and sold by T. Basset, J. Robinson, B. Aylmer, Joh. Southby and W. Canning., AMNH Special Collections, Photographic Transparency Collection, 4 x 5: 6299
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