The good book, and amenities of nature, or Annuals of historical and natural sciences. Containing selections of observations, researches and novelities in all the branches of physical and historical knowledge, with letters of eminent authors--chiefly on zoology, botany, agronomy, geognosy, ethonography...or organized beings and fossils, nations and languages.
By: By C.S. Rafinesque.
Publisher: Printed for the Eleutherium of knowledge
Published: 1840
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 84
Subjects: Natural history.
Notes: Cover-title: The good book--Number I (300 figures)
"N.B. 300 figures belong to this number in the atlas of plates sold apart."--Index, p. 84.
"This periodical work will consist of ten numbers each of 60 to 100 pages, to be issued quarterly or semi-annually between 1840 and 1842 ... The figures, plans and tables belonging to it, about 1000 forming 10 numbers of 100 each ... will be lithographed if the number of subscribers warrant it, or else be delivered in original state of drawings."--Prospectus p. 2.
"Figures" and continuations apparently never published. cf. Sabin, Bibl. amer., B.M., etc.
"Some objects and works of same author for sale": cover, p.4.