A Dictionary of the Most Uncommon Wonders of the Works of Art and Nature, Particularly of Those, Which are Most Remarkable in America; Compiled from the Most Authentic Authors, and Comprising the Most Curious and Extensive Collection of the Kind.......

Author: Hardie, James
Title: A Dictionary of the Most Uncommon Wonders of the Works of Art and Nature, Particularly of Those, Which are Most Remarkable in America; Compiled from the Most Authentic Authors, and Comprising the Most Curious and Extensive Collection of the Kind.......
Description: New York, Samuel Marks, 1819. First Edition, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover. xii, 336pp. Full leather, leather spine label. Covers worn and scuffed, spine label corner chipped, contents are tanned, foxed and occasionally damp-stained, free endpapers missing, binding is tight and sound, label of William Disturnell's Circulating Library on front pastedown is only library identification. Author's expansive views of nature, ranging from anthropophagi (cannibalism) to ventroquism and zoophytes. Good.

Keywords: Earth Science Zoology

Price: US$ 50.00 Seller: Old Bookshelf
- Book number: 002988

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