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How to gain from eighty to two hundred pounds sterling a year by instructive and amusing means, or, Instructions for collecting, preserving, and sending collections of natural history / by A. Boucard

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Author:
Boucard, Adolphe 1839-1905  Search this
Former owner:
Wetmore, Alexander 1886-1978 DSI  Search this
Physical description:
28 [i.e. 32] p. ; 21 cm
Type:
Handbooks, manuals, etc
Date:
1871
Notes:
Single sewn gathering with conjugate fold inserted between first and second leaf.
Four-page errata sheet bound in following t.p. not included in the printed pagination.
Advertising matter: p. [26]-28.
Colophon: Typ. Oberthur et fils, à Rennes.
Also available online.
SCNHRB copy (39088000959312) has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Alexander Wetmore. Inscribed in pencil at head of cover title: A. Wetmore.
SCNHRB copy in original green printed paper wrappers; with a plain protective paper cover, housed in an archival portfolio.
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Topic:
Natural history--Technique  Search this
Zoological specimens--Collection and preservation  Search this
Museum conservation methods  Search this
Call number:
QH61 .B75 1871
QH61.B75 1871
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_332402