'The White Fulica' Size:S: 36 x 28cm the left rests on a

the left rests on a brown leather-bound volume of his own stellar observations [eventually published posthumously as Atlas Coelestis

Ashburnham House was purchased by Westminster School in 1882

cannot understand why anyone would wish to read about the sport of prize fighting

Plate 8 figures 1-2 from the paper 'On a new principle of constructing ships in the mercantile navy'

'The White Fulica' Size:S: 36 x 28cm the left rests on aOrnithological study of a Lord Howe Swamphen or White Gallinule (Porphyrio albus), an extinct bird native to Lord Howe Island, Australia. Plate 27 from Journal of a voyage to New South Wales by John White (J. Debrett, London, 1790). The accompanying text states that: 'The body is about the size of a domestic fowl. The shoulders are furnished with a small crooked spine This bird is the only species of its genus yet known of a white colour' The plate is