Cassell's popular natural history.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Charles Thurnam & Sons, binder.

Robert Frost Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zoology.

Animal behavior.

Penn Provenance:

Frost, Robert (donor) (Frost Collection copy)

Charles Thurnam & Sons (label) (Frost Collection copy)

Henry Sotheran Ltd. (stamp) (Frost Collection copy)

Physical Description:

4 volumes : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Other Title:

Cassell's natural history PU

Place of Publication:

London : Cassell, Petter, & Galpin, [1859-1863]

Contents:

Vol. 1. Mammalia. I. Four-handed animals. II. Wing-handed animals. III. Insect-eating animals. IV. Rodents, or gnawing animals. V. Flesh-eating animals

v. 2. Mammalia. V. Flesh-eating animals (concluded). VI. Thick-skinned animals. VII. Ruminating animals. VIII. Toothless animals. IX. Pouch-bearing animals. X. Aquatic mammals, or cetacea

V. 3. Birds. I. Rapacious birds. II. Perching birds. III. Climbing birds. IV. Gallinaceous birds. V. Wading birds. VI. Swimming birds

V. 4. Reptiles, fishes, insects, worms, crustaceans, molluscs, sea-stars, echinoderms, corallines, corals, and animalcules.

Notes:

Imprint date supplied in ms. on title leaf of v. 1.

Includes indexes.

Local Notes:

Frost Collection copy: v. 1 has ms. bibliographical note in pencil on back free endpaper.

Frost Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2010 by Robert Frost.

Frost Collection copy: v. 1 has autograph ("E.M. Burton") on front free endpaper.

Frost Collection copy: each vol. has stamp ("SOTHERAN. SACKVILLE ST. LONDON") on verso of front free endpaper; v. 2 has printed paper sheet ("With the respectful compliments of Henry Sotheran Ltd. ...") laid in.

Frost Collection copy: each volume bound by Charles Thurnam & Sons (Carlisle, England), with their ticket on front pastedown, in half blind-tooled green calf(?) over marbled boards; 5 raised bands on spine; spine panels tooled in gold and blind; gold-stamped black leather spine label ("CASSELL'S NATURAL HISTORY"); volume number stamped in gold on spine; all edges marbled.

Frost Collection copy: v. 2: left board detached.

OCLC:

810881663