The museum of natural history, with introductory essay on the natural history of the primeval world
being a popular account of the structure, habits, and classification of the various departments of the animal kingdom, quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, shells, and insects, including the insects destructive to agriculture
by Sir John Richardson
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Chromolithographed t.p.
Vol. 1 has added engraved t.p.
Originally issued in parts, [1859-1862?].
Includes indexes.
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SCNHRB has two copies.
SCNHRB c. 1 (39088015065618, 39088015065659, 39088015065691) has all the plates bound in v. 1, some of the plates torn with the loss of a few of the images; lacking some of the sectional title pages?
SCNHRB c. 1 has bookplate: In memory of Remington Kellogg. Inscribed on front free endpapers: Presented to the Remington Kellogg Library by Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Ashbby, Scientists Cliffs, Maryland, January 1971.
SCNHRB c. 1 quarter bound in recent black goatskin and teal paste-paper boards, title in gilt on spine.
SCNHRB c. 2 (39088015065733) incomplete: section of Fishes, with plates, of v. 2 only.
SCNHRB c. 2 has bookplate of the Library of Congress, Smithsonian Deposit. Stamped in red on t.p.: Smithsonian Institution.
SCNHRB c. 2 half bound in diced sheepskin and marbled paper boards, title in gilt on spine.
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