The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization
Subtitle: forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy
By: by the late Baron Georges Cuvier ; translated and adapted to the present state of science ; the Mammalia, birds, and reptiles, by Edward Blyth ; the fishes and Radiata, by Robert Mudie ; the molluscous animals, by George Johnston ; the articulated animals, by J.O. Westwood
Contributors: Blyth, Edward, 1810-1873; Mudie, Robert, 1777-1842; Johnston, George, 1797-1855; Westwood, J. O. 1805-1893; Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885; Ralph, W. L., former owner
Edition: A new edition / with additions by W.B. Carpenter and J.O. Westwood ; illustrated by three hundred engravings on wood and thirty-four on steel.
Publisher: W.S. Orr and Co.
Published: 1849
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 718
Subjects: Zoology; Animals -- Nomenclature
Genres: Nomenclature.
Other titles: Animal kingdom, arranged according to its organization
Work titles: Règne animal
Notes: Added t.p., with portrait medallion.

"G. Beard, printer"--Verso of t.p.

Frontispiece is hand-colored.

Pl. no. II-V each accompanied by a leaf of descriptive letterpress.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

extracted picklist 20081216 BHLEX

SCNHRB copy (39088013487723) inscribed in pencil on original 2nd front free endpaper: W.L. Ralph. Stamped on t.p.: Smithsonian Institution National Museum Ralph Collection [ms. acc. no.] 197200.

SCNHRB copy bound in black library buckram, title in gilt on spine.