The museum of natural history
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, and T. Spencer Cobbold; assisted by William Baird and Adam White. With a History of the American fauna, by Joseph B. Holder
Contributors: Dallas, W. S. 1824-1890; Cobbold, T. Spencer 1828-1886; Baird, William, 1803-1872; White, Adam, 1817-1879; Holder, Joseph Bassett, 1824-1888
Publisher: J. S. Virtue
Published: 1877
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Zoology
Notes: Vol. 1 has added t.-p., engr

Preface by Dr. Cobbold

First edition, Glasgow [1859-62]

Issued in parts

Imperfect: wanting t.-p. of v. [3] the supplement on the American fauna

Vol. 1-2 have 146 plates, 36 handcolored (plate no. 27 torn)