Record The living world : a complete natural history of the world's creatures : fishes, reptiles, insects, birds and mammals : founded upon the theory of the progression of species, and in accordance with genetic revelation, scriptural truths, and the harmony of nature : with introduction describing the geological ages, changes in the earth's crusts, fossil remains of extinct animals, and monsters of the... | Collections Search Center, Smithsonian Institution

The living world : a complete natural history of the world's creatures : fishes, reptiles, insects, birds and mammals : founded upon the theory of the progression of species, and in accordance with genetic revelation, scriptural truths, and the harmony of nature : with introduction describing the geological ages, changes in the earth's crusts, fossil remains of extinct animals, and monsters of the...

Author:: Expanded as (work): Buel, James W (James William) 1849-1920 Savage world Search this

Physical description:: [2], 722 pages, 7 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Notes:: Title in red and black.; Also published with imprint: St. Louis : Holloway & Co., 1889; this edition has eight colored plates, as stated in subtitle information.; Later published in an enlarged form (Philadelphia : Historical Publishing Company, ©1891) under the title: The savage world.; Includes index.; SCNHRB copy (39088015066103) imperfect: some leaves torn, with loss of text and ill.; SCNHRB copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Gift of Judith King.; SCNHRB copy in original publisher's red pictorial cloth binding; housed in an archival cardboard box.