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Animals -- civet [graphic].
- Still image
- [19--]
- 19-19
- 1 Resource
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https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/79d4a650-c52e-012f-67ad-58d385a7bc34#/?tab=navigation&roots=81:73a4b170-c534-012f-cde6-58d385a7bc34Oriental field sports : being a complete, detailed, and accurate description of the wild sports of the East, and exhibiting ... the natural history of the elephant, the rhinoceros, the tiger, the leopard, the bear, the deer, the buffalo, the wolf, the wild hog, the jackall, the wild dog, the civet, and other domesticated [sic] animals, as likewise the different species of feathered game, fishes, and serpents : the whole interspersed with a variety of ... anecdotes / taken from the manuscript and designs of Captain Thomas Williamson, who served upward of twenty years in Bengal ; the drawings by Samuel Howitt, made uniform in size, and engraved by the first artists.
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- London : Printed for H.R. Young by J. M'Creery, 1819.
- 1819
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *KF+ 1819 85-154 Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Oriental field sports : being a complete, detailed, and accurate description of the wild sports of the east; and exhibiting, in a novel and interesting manner, the natural history of the elephant, the rhinoceros, the tiger, the leopard, the bear, the deer, the buffalo, the wolf, the wild hog, the jackall, the wild dog, the civet, and other undomesticated animals: As likewise the different species of feathered game, fishes, and serpents / the whole interspersed with a variety of original, authentic, and curious anecdotes, taken from the manuscript and designs of Captain Thomas Williamson, who served upward of twenty years in Bengal; the drawings by Samuel Howett, made uniform in size, and engraved by the first artists...
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- London : Printed for Edward Orme, printseller to his Majesty, 1807.
- 1807
- 2 Items
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http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433003231481Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MYPH+ (Williamson, T. Oriental field sports) v. 2 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MYPH+ (Williamson, T. Oriental field sports) v. 1 Offsite Exeter-Change [electronic resource] : The following is a catalogue of part of the capital collection of birds and beasts now exhibiting at the grand menagerie in the Great Room, as above: A Royal Bengal Striped Tyger and Tygress, being the First ever exhibited at the above Place, much superior to any of the Kind in this Kingdom. - The Tygress was landed from the Duckingfield-Hall Indiaman, on the 14th of September, 1796. A ravenous hunting Tyger, from Bengal. An Asiatic Panther, from ditto. A beautiful Spotted Leopard, from Africa. A ravenous Laughing Hyaena. A wonderful Polar or Sea Lion; an amphibious Animal, which cannot live without being washed with Water every Day. A Jackall, or Lion's Provider. A ravenous Wolf, from Siberia, in Russia. A beautiful Antelope, from Asia. A large Tyger Cat; and a Muscovy or Civet Cat. A large Wild Man of the Woods, that walks upright, and is so extremely sagacious as to understand every Word the Keeper says to him. A Long-Armed Baboon; and a curious Ape, from Ape's-Hill, in Barbary. A stupendous Ostrich, Nine Feet high, from the Coast of Barbary. A Pelican of the Wilderness,-a Bird so remarkable as to be mentioned in Sacred History, that feeds it's Young ones with it's own Blood. A Royal Crown Crane, or Bird of Paradise. Two Condor Minor Vultures very rare and scarce. An Imperial Vulture, the largest ever seen in this Kingdom. A Golden Eagle, from Santa Cruz; and a Horned Owl, from Bohemia. And a Variety of other Animals and Birds, too numerous to insert. Admittance 1s. each Person. In an adjoining Apartment, is A wonderful Maif Elephant, which, although the largest Animal in the Creation, is so sagacious and tractable, as to be obedient to every Command of it's Keeper; and is so exceedingly tame, that Children frequently ride on it's Back with the greatest Safety, as the Den is well constructed for that Purpose. - Admittance 1s. each Person. In an Apartment under the Greatroom, is to be Seen from Obscurity, by A curious Appartus, Variety of Pleasing Perspectives and Public Animation, far excelling any thing of the Kind yet invented. Admission One Shilling each Person, or the Three Exhibitions for Half-a-Crown. N. B. Foreign Birds and Beasts bought, sold, or exchanged, by G. Pidcock, as above.
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- [London] : Hancock, printer, No. 61, Barbican, [1800?]
- 1800
- 1 Resource
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http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?contentSet=ECCOArticles&docType=ECCOArticles&bookId=0538000700&type=getFullCitation&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&docLevel=TEXT_GRAPHICS&version=1.0&source=library&userGroupName=nyplSmells : a cultural history of odours in early modern times / Robert Muchembled ; translated by Susan Pickford.
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- Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity, [2020]
- 2020-2020
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 21-5408 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Networked disease : emerging infections in the global city / edited by S. Harris Ali and Roger Keil.
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- Malden, MA ; Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell, 2008.
- 2008
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text RA644.S17 N48 2008 Off-site
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