Title
Vegetable ivory, or, Specimen nuts of the ivory plant
Title Variants
Alternative:
Specimen nuts of the ivory plant
Alternative:
Vegetable ivory
By
Taylor, Benjamin,
, illustrator
Type
Book
Material
Published material
Publication info
[United States?], [publisher not identified], [approximately 1855]
Notes
Caption title.
Lithographed vignette of a landscape scene, "Designed by B. Taylor," with caption: Natives gathering corozo nut.
Text within ornamental border.
Broadside promotion for "ivory" made from palm nuts. "The Indians cover their cottages with the largest leaves, and the English manufacture all kinds of fancy articles of the nut. The ornaments made from this substance exhibited in the Exhibition, 1851, Class XXVIII, which consisted of a variety of objects turned with great skill ... [The Great Exhibition, or Crystal Palace Exhibition, of 1851].
Subjects
Broadsides
,
Ivory nut palm
,
Ivory nuts
,
Phytelephas
,
South America
,
Specimens
Call Number
SB299.P5 V44 1855
Language
English
Identifiers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.153479
OCLC:
1017096746
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