The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization : forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy / by the late Baron Georges Cuvier ; translated and adapted to the present state of science ; the Mammalia, birds, and reptiles, by Edward Blyth ; the fishes and Radiata, by Robert Mudie ; the molluscous animals, by George Johnston ; the articulated animals, by J.O...
vii, [3], 718 p., XXXIII [i.e. 34] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm
Type:
Nomenclature
Date:
1849
Notes:
Added t.p., with portrait medallion.
"G. Beard, printer"--Verso of t.p.
Frontispiece is hand-colored.
Pl. no. II-V each accompanied by a leaf of descriptive letterpress.
Also available online.
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SCNHRB copy (39088013487723) inscribed in pencil on original 2nd front free endpaper: W.L. Ralph. Stamped on t.p.: Smithsonian Institution National Museum Ralph Collection [ms. acc. no.] 197200.
SCNHRB copy bound in black library buckram, title in gilt on spine.