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[NATURAL HISTORY]. ELLIS, John (1710-1776). An Essay Towards a Natural History of the Corallines... London: Printed for the Author by A. Millar, 1755.

4to (260 x 197 mm). Engraved frontispiece, 40 engraved plates (6 folding). (Some offsetting or light browning.) Modern half calf. Provenance: Peal Library, Walpole Park, Ealing (rubberstamp and call number on title-page, rubberstamps on all plates).

FIRST EDITION, including an additional unnumbered plate with the earliest depiction of Cuff's aquatic microscope not called for in Nissen. Ellis includes a description of a large octopus observed near the North Pole by a whaling party in the&

[NATURAL HISTORY]. ELLIS, John (1710-1776). An Essay Towards a Natural History of the Corallines... London: Printed for the Author by A. Millar, 1755.