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035 $a(OCoLC)ocm08821595
040 $aSMI$cSMI$dOCL$dSMI
049 $aSMI+$n[302293]
049 $aSNI1$nljdb 20100111. BHL recat, retaining call no., former bc 39088003067378
090 $aQL49$b.T83 1845
099 $aQL49.T83 1845
100 1 $aTrimmer, Mary.
245 12 $aA natural history of the most remarkable quadrupeds, birds, fishes, serpents, reptiles and insects /$cby Mrs. Mary Trimmer ; with 200 engravings.
250 $aAbridged and improved, particularly designed for youth in the United States, and suited to the use of schools.
260 $aBoston :$bS.G. Simpkins,$c1845, c1829.
300 $a233 p., [1] leaf of plates :$bill. ;$c17 cm.
500 $a"Cambridge: Metcalf and Company, printers to the University"--Verso of t.p.
500 $a"This work may be regarded as an abridgment of Mrs. Trimmer's Natural history, though additions have been made from various sources, and a number of American animals introduced, not noticed in that work. ... The work is adapted not only to general use, but to reading and recitation in schools, and the opportunity which the subject offered for occasional reflections and remarks, tending to cultivate feelings of humanity towards domestic, as well as other animals, has not been neglected."--Preface, p. [3].
500 $aFootnotes contain questions teachers might ask students to test comprehension.
500 $aLargely adapted and abridged from Bewick's A general history of quadrupeds (1799), and History of British birds (1799)--Cf. Osborne Coll., p. 213-214.
500 $aPublisher's monogram on t.p.
583 $aextracted picklist$c20081216$zBHLEX
590 $aSCNHRB copy (39088015066400) stamped on verso of t.p.: Smithsonian Institution National Museum Aug 10 1936 [acc. no.] 302293.
590 $aSCNHRB copy bound in red library buckram, title in gilt on spine.
650 0 $aZoology$vJuvenile literature.
650 0 $aNatural history$vJuvenile literature.
650 0 $aZoology$vTextbooks.
945 $aDC 9-29-82
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