The Natural History of Stafford-Shire. By Robert Plot. LLD. Keeper of the Ashmolean Musaeum and Professor of Chymistry in the University of Oxford. ...

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(Didsbury, Manchester: E. J. Morten, 1973). (Facsimile reprint of the Oxford 1686 edition). Folio. Orig. dec. cloth. Gilt. (18, 450, 10pp.). With title-vign., num. full-page and double-page engraved plates, a large fold. map, and tipped-in col. slip showing coats-of-arms. Fine. NOTE: Robert Plot (1640 - 1696) was an English naturalist, the first Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford, and the first keeper of the Ashmolean Museum. His Natural History of Oxford-Shire (1677) included the first known illustration of a dinosaur bone.