The history of brutes, or, A description of living creatures wherein the nature and properties of four-footed beasts are at large described / by Wolfgangus Franzius ... ; and now rendred into English by N.W.

Title

The history of brutes, or, A description of living creatures wherein the nature and properties of four-footed beasts are at large described / by Wolfgangus Franzius ... ; and now rendred into English by N.W.

Author

Franz, Wolfgang, 1564-1628.

Publication

London :: Printed by E. Okes, for Francis Haley ...,

1670.

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Subject terms

Zoology -- Pre-Linnean works.

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Contents

• frontispiece
• title page
• THE EPISTLE TO THE READER.
• table of contents
• Books Printed, and are to be sold by Francis Haley, at the Corner of Chancery-Lane in Holborn.
• CHAP. I.
• CHAP. II.
  • The Definition of an irrational Creature.
  • Of the body of a Brute.
  • Of the soul of a Brute.
• CHAP. III.
• CHAP. IV.
• CHAP. V.
• CHAP. VI.
• CHAP. VII.
• CHAP. VIII.
• CHAP. IX.
• CHAP. X.
• CHAP. XI.
• CHAP. XII.
• CHAP. XIII.
• CHAP. XIV.
• CHAP. XV.
• CHAP. XVI.
• CHAP. XVII.
• CHAP. XVIII.
• CHAP. XIX.
• CHAP. XX.
• CHAP. XXI.
• CHAP. XXII.
• CHAP. XXIII.
• CHAP. XXIV.
• CHAP. XXV.
• CHAP. XXVI.
• CHAP. XXVII.
• CHAP. XXVIII.
• CHAP. XXIX.
  • Of the Crocodile, Lizard, Salaman∣der, and Stellio.
  • Of the Crocodile.
• CHAP. XXX.
• CHAP. XXXI.
• CHAP. XXXII.
  • Of the Frog, and the Toad.
  • Of the Toad.
  • Of the Snail.
• CHAP. XXXIII.
  • Of the Mouse, the Dormouse, and the Mole.
  • Of the Dormouse.
  • Of the Mole.
• CHAP. XXXIII.