Title
The romance of animal arts and crafts : being an interesting account of the spinning, weaving, sewing manufacture of paper and pottery, aeronautics, 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 : aeronauts 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
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