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Emanuel Mendes da Costa

Emanuel Mendes da Costa (5 June 1717 – 31 May 1791) was an English botanist, naturalist, philosopher, and collector of valuable notes and of manuscripts, and of anecdotes of the literati. Da Costa became infamous for embezzling funds while working at the Royal Society in London and was imprisoned. Provided by Wikipedia

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A natural history of fossils : By Emanuel Mendes da Costa, Fellow of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies of London, and Member of the Imperial Academy Naturae Curiosorum of Germany...

by Mendes da Costa, Emanuel
Published 1757

printed for L. Davis and C. Reymers, against Grays-Inn-Gate, Holbourn, Printers to the Royal Society

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A natural history of fossils : By Emanuel Mendes da Costa. Fellow of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies of London, and Member of the Imperial Academy Naturae Curiosorum of Germany

by Mendes da Costa, Emanuel
Published 1757

printed for L. Davis and C. Reymers, against Grays-Inn-Gate, Holbourn. Printers to the Royal Society

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Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniæ, or, the British conchology; containing the descriptions and other particulars of natural history of the shells of Great Britain and Irelan...

by Mendes da Costa, Emanuel
Published 1778

printed for the author; and sold by Messrs. Millan, B. White, Elmsley, & Robson, Booksellers