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Johann Reinhold Forster, A catalogue of the animals of North America, 1771

Object Status:

Extant

Accession Date:

N.d.

Primary Source Reference:

Descriptive Catalogue of the Du Simitière Papers in the Library Company of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, 1940), p. 161, 22.4

Author/Composer:

Forster, Johann Reinhold, 1729-1798

Title Information:

A catalogue of the animals of North America. Containing, an enumeration of the known quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fish, insects, crustaceous and testaceous animals; many of which are new, and never described before. To which are added, short directions for collecting, preserving, and transporting, all kinds of natural history curiosities. By John Reinhold Forster, F.A.S.

Imprint Information:

London: sold by B. White, 1771

Repository:

LCP, Call no. Am 1771 For 1578.O.4