The romance of animal arts and crafts : being an interesting account of the spinning, weaving, sewing manufacture of paper and pottery, ae˜ronautics, raft-building, road-making, and various other industries of wild life

Title Variants

Uniform: Les arts et metiers chez les animaux

By

Coupin, Henri, 1868-1937 , author

Lea, John. , author
J.B. Lippincott & Co., , publisher
Seeley and Co., , publisher
William Brendon and Son, , printer

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, J.B. Lippincott Company, 1907

Notes

"It seems not unlikely that the book is essentially a translation of the French work 'Le arts et metiers chez les animaux." cf. Letter from publisher, J.B. Lippincott Company.

Manufacture statement from tail of index.

Contents: The master craftsmen -- Excavators and mineers : mammals -- Excavators and mineers : other animals -- Makers of basket-work -- Architects of sperical dwellings -- Makers of mounds : ants -- Makers of mounds : birds -- Masons -- More masons -- Engineers of roads and tunnels -- Carpenters -- Trappers -- Harvesters, &c. -- Hut builders -- Silk-spinners : spinners of nets -- Silk-spinners : ae˜ronauts and divers -- Raft builders -- Potters -- Paper-makers -- Weavers, sempsters, and workers in cotton -- Clothiers -- Rock and stone borers -- 'Cigar' manufacturers -- Workers in secretory and excretory products.

Text in English, translated from the French.

Subjects

1907 , Animal behavior , Gold blocked bindings (Binding) , Pennsylvania , Philadelphia , Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding)

Call Number

QL751 .C85

Classification

591.5

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.154508
OCLC: 18311277