The ocean world
Subtitle: being a descriptive history of the sea and its living inhabitants.
By: Chiefly translated from "La vie et les moeurs des animaux" by Louis Figuier.  Illustrated by four hundred and twenty-seven engravings, chiefly designed under the direction of m. Ch. Bévalet, from specimens in the museums of Paris.
Contributors: O., W. S., tr.; W. S. O., tr.
Publisher: D. Appleton & co.
Published: 1868
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 605
Subjects: Ocean; Marine animals
Notes: "Preface" signed: W. S. O.
In part compiled ... from the author's La terre et les mers ... but the larger portion of the work is a free translation of his ... La vie et les moeurs des animaux.  Other chapters ... are compiled from various sources.  cf. Pref.