The museum of natural history, with introductory essay on the natural history of the primeval world
Subtitle: being a popular account of the structure, habits, and classification of the various departments of the animal kingdom, quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, shells, and insects, including the insects destructive to agriculture
By: by Sir John Richardson, William S. Dallas, T. Spencer Cobbold, and William Baird & Adam White
Contributors: Dallas, W. S. (William Sweetland), 1824-1890; Cobbold, T. Spencer (Thomas Spencer), 1828-1886; Baird, William, 1803-1872; White, Adam, 1817-1879; Kellogg, Remington, 1892-1969, former owner; Library of Congress
Publisher: William MacKenzie
Published: 1869
Place of publication: London; Glasgow; Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 139
Subjects: Zoology; Pictorial works
Notes: Chromolithographed t.p.

Vol. 1 has added engraved t.p.

Originally issued in parts, [1859-1862?].

Includes indexes.

extracted picklist 20081216 BHLEX

SCNHRB has two copies.

SCNHRB c. 1 (39088015065618, 39088015065659, 39088015065691) has all the plates bound in v. 1, some of the plates torn with the loss of a few of the images; lacking some of the sectional title pages?

SCNHRB c. 1 has bookplate: In memory of Remington Kellogg. Inscribed on front free endpapers: Presented to the Remington Kellogg Library by Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Ashbby, Scientists Cliffs, Maryland, January 1971.

SCNHRB c. 1 quarter bound in recent black goatskin and teal paste-paper boards, title in gilt on spine.

SCNHRB c. 2 (39088015065733) incomplete: section of Fishes, with plates, of v. 2 only.

SCNHRB c. 2 has bookplate of the Library of Congress, Smithsonian Deposit. Stamped in red on t.p.: Smithsonian Institution.

SCNHRB c. 2 half bound in diced sheepskin and marbled paper boards, title in gilt on spine.