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[FIELDING, Henry]. Some Papers Proper to be Read before the R----l Society, Concerning the Terrestrial Chysipus, Golden-Foot or Guinea… London: J. Roberts, 1743.
8° (198 x 122 mm). Disbound.
FIRST EDITION. A parody of the paper by the Swiss naturalist Abraham Trembley on the freshwater “Polypus” published in the Philosophical Transactions. Fielding not only satirizes what he, along with Swift and Pope, considered to be the foolish preoccupations of contemporary scientists, but also the notorious collector of guineas, the miser Peter Walter, and the ministry’s funding of George II's Hanoverian troops. Cross III, p.308.
8° (198 x 122 mm). Disbound.
FIRST EDITION. A parody of the paper by the Swiss naturalist Abraham Trembley on the freshwater “Polypus” published in the Philosophical Transactions. Fielding not only satirizes what he, along with Swift and Pope, considered to be the foolish preoccupations of contemporary scientists, but also the notorious collector of guineas, the miser Peter Walter, and the ministry’s funding of George II's Hanoverian troops. Cross III, p.308.