The Treasury of Natural History or a Popular Dictionary of Zoology in which the characteristics that distinguish the different classes, genera, and species, are combined with a variety if interesting information illustrative of the habits, instincts, and general economy of the animal kingdom. Sixth edition revised and corrected, with an extended supplement, by T. Spencer Cobbold, M.D. F.L.S. Embellished with 900 Woodcuts expressly engraved for this work.

Maunder, Samuel

Published by London:Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862

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Thick 12mo. , pagination xii, 1-792, xiii - xvii, 793 - 798 [1-32]. Last 32 pages are publisher s catalogue. Frontispiece with tissue guard and many engraved illustrations within text. Brown publisher s cloth with gilt titles on spine and top board, brown endpapers. Hinges starting and top endpaper split at hinge; top and tail of spine and shoulders little rubbed but internally clean and binding tight. Previous owner s signature on verso of half-title. In the Prefatory Note the editor explains that the extended supplement in this edition is in response to …the recent strides of Natural History Science , which has brought to light a multitude of novel and important facts, since the last edition, notably on the re-discovery of that huge, living, anthropomorphous ape, the Gorilla… and also, …the great variety of extinct monsters, whose skeletal remains have been investigated by the devoted cultivars of palæontological research. Seller Inventory # A00100

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Title: The Treasury of Natural History or a Popular...

Publisher: London:Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts

Publication Date: 1862

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good