Accession number
PML 84036
Published
Boston : Carter, Hendee, and Co., Battleboro' Power Press Office, 1832.
Notes
"This book is almost wholly a mere compilation; free use has been made ... of the Library of entertaining knowledge, The family library, Wilson's ornithology, Godman's natural history of North America, &c."--Note to the critics, p. [4], signed: P.P.
Compiled by Samuel G. Goodrich. Cf. His Recollections of a lifetime (New York, 1856), v. 2, p. 540.
Verso of t.p.: Stereotyped by Lyman Thurston & Co. Boston.
Sixth page numbered "viii".
Last page blank.
Plates engraved on metal. Signed: O. Petlon [sic] [i.e. Oliver Pelton?]. Wood-engravings variously signed by George Loring Brown; "Appleton" [i.e. George Washington Appleton?]; "B" [i.e. Abel Bowen?]; "JD" ; "JCC" ; and "P". Wood-engraving of the pine marten on p. 155 attributed to Albert Alden. Cf. Alden's proof-engravings scrapbook in the library of the American Antiquarian Society.
Includes index, p. [5]-viii [i.e., 6].
Compiled by Samuel G. Goodrich. Cf. His Recollections of a lifetime (New York, 1856), v. 2, p. 540.
Verso of t.p.: Stereotyped by Lyman Thurston & Co. Boston.
Sixth page numbered "viii".
Last page blank.
Plates engraved on metal. Signed: O. Petlon [sic] [i.e. Oliver Pelton?]. Wood-engravings variously signed by George Loring Brown; "Appleton" [i.e. George Washington Appleton?]; "B" [i.e. Abel Bowen?]; "JD" ; "JCC" ; and "P". Wood-engraving of the pine marten on p. 155 attributed to Albert Alden. Cf. Alden's proof-engravings scrapbook in the library of the American Antiquarian Society.
Includes index, p. [5]-viii [i.e., 6].
Description
[7], 10-343, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Provenance
Inscription: J.C. Roosevelt Brown.
Binding
1/4 leather, yellow boards.
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