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A natural history of the most remarkable quadrupeds, birds, fishes, serpents, reptiles and insects

Title

A natural history of the most remarkable quadrupeds, birds, fishes, serpents, reptiles and insects

By

Trimmer, Mary.

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

Boston, S.G. Simpkins, 1845, c1829

Edition

Abridged and improved, particularly designed for youth in the United States, and suited to the use of schools.

Notes

"Cambridge: Metcalf and Company, printers to the University"--Verso of t.p.

"This work may be regarded as an abridgment of Mrs. Trimmer's Natural history, though additions have been made from various sources, and a number of American animals introduced, not noticed in that work. ... The work is adapted not only to general use, but to reading and recitation in schools, and the opportunity which the subject offered for occasional reflections and remarks, tending to cultivate feelings of humanity towards domestic, as well as other animals, has not been neglected."--Preface, p. [3].

Footnotes contain questions teachers might ask students to test comprehension.

Largely adapted and abridged from Bewick's A general history of quadrupeds (1799), and History of British birds (1799)--Cf. Osborne Coll., p. 213-214.

Publisher's monogram on t.p.