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My land and water friends / Mary E. Bamford ; one hundred and seventy illustrations by L.J. Bridgman.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel 8083
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bamford, Mary E. (Mary Ellen), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Zoology--Juvenile fiction.
- Zoology.
- Animals--Juvenile fiction.
- Animals.
- Insects--Juvenile fiction.
- Insects.
- Spiders--Juvenile fiction.
- Spiders.
- Nature stories.
- Genre:
- Fiction
- Juvenile works
- Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding) -- United States -- 19th century.
- Physical Description:
- 223 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : D. Lothrop & Co., [1886]
- Summary:
- Information about animals and insects. "The following pages were written with hope of interesting boys and girls in the wonderful little neighbors around them. Although the facts here given have been stated in a childish way, still the author has endeavored to give only such particulars as are authorized by reliable writers."--page [5].
- Contents:
- A frog's talk
- A grasshopper's remarks
- A bee's buzzings
- A crab's account of himself
- A visitor's chat
- A snail's soliloquy
- An ant's ideas
- An oyster's reflections
- - A little friend and her relations
- A mud-turtle's lecture
- A mouse's musings
- A lobster's life
- A spider's speech
- A dragon-fly's doings
- A song-sparrow's sayings
- A horned toad's observations
- A mosquito's murmurings
- A limpet's meditations
- A saw-fly's folks.
- Notes:
- Illustrations engraved by S.T. Dodd.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel 8082: Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2024 by Caroline F. Schimmel. Pictorial binding. Ink inscription on front free endleaf recto: To Ralph, On his tenth Birthday. From Mamma, Plymouth, Mass. June 17, 1884.
- Schimmel 8083: Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2024 by Caroline F. Schimmel. Ink inscription on front free endleaf recto: To Horace Fairchild Major from Clara Apgar, Oct. 25, 1892.
- OCLC:
- 12599079
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