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The good book, and amenities of nature, or Annuals of historical and natural sciences. Containing selections of observations, researches and novelities in all the branches of physical and historical knowledge, with letters of eminent authors--chiefly on zoology, botany, agronomy, geognosy, ethonography -- or organized beings and fossils, nations and languages by C.S. Rafinesque
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Natural history.
- Physical Description:
- 84 p. ; 25 cm.
- Other Title:
- Amenities of nature
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Printed for the Eleutherium of knowledge, 1840.
- Notes:
- Cover-title: The good book--Number I (300 figures).
- "N.B. 300 figures belong to this number in the atlas of plates sold apart."--Index, p. 84.
- "This periodical work will consist of ten numbers each of 60 to 100 pages, to be issued quarterly or semi-annually between 1840 and 1842 ... The figures, plans and tables belonging to it, about 1000 forming 10 numbers of 100 each ... will be lithographed if the number of subscribers warrant it, or else be delivered in original state of drawings."--Prospectus p. 2.
- "Figures" and continuations apparently never published--Cf. Sabin 67452, Bibl. amer., B.M., etc.
- "Some objects and works of same author for sale": cover, p.4.
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