Natural history of the animal kingdom for the use of young people
Subtitle: in three parts, comprising I. Mammalia : II. Birds : Part III. Reptiles, amphibia, fishes, insects, worms, molluscs, zoophytes, &c. : with 91 coloured plates, including about 850 figures, and numerous additional illustrations in the text
By: adapted from the German of Professor von Schubert by W.F. Kirby
Contributors: Schubert, Gotthilf Heinrich von, 1780-1860; Mearns, Edgar Alexander, 1856-1916, former owner; Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain). Committee of General Literature and Education
Publisher: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; E. & J.B. Young and Co.
Published: 1889
Place of publication: London; Brighton; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 91
Subjects: Zoology; Juvenile literature; Animals; Pictorial works
Notes: "Published under the direction of the committee of general literature and education appointed by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge."

"Printed by J.F. Schreiber, Esslingen, Germany."

Includes index.

extracted picklist 20081216 BHLEX

SCNHRB copy (39088015066525) lacking t.p.'s to pt. II & III?

SCNHRB copy stamped on t.p.: Mearns Collection; blind-embossed: Smithsonian Institution National Museum [ms. acc. no.] 287709.

SCNHRB copy bound in blue buckram, title in gilt on spine.