Peter Parley's tales of animals containing descriptions of three hundred quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects, with numerous engravings.
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Peter Parley's tales of animals containing descriptions of three hundred quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects, with numerous engravings.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Sabin Americana, 1500-1926
Other Authors: Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold), 1793-1860
Format: Online Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Carter, Hendee, and Co., 1833 [c1832]
Edition:3rd ed., with many corrections and improvements, and adapted to the use of schools.
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Item Description:"This edition of Parley's animals will be found to contain a much larger quantity of matter than the first, with an addition of many engravings. These are also larger, and are more correct and splendid delineations of the animals they represent. The liberal encouragement bestowed upon the first edition has induced the publishers to spare no expense or care in the preparation of this."--Publisher's notice, t.p., verso.
"Wishing to see the history of animated nature become a subject, not of general reading only, but of general study in our schools, I have ventured to prepare and offer to the public the present volume."--Preface, p. [4], signed: Peter Parley. "This book is almost wholly a mere compilation; free use has been made ... of the Library of entertaining knowledge, The family library, Wilson's ornithology, Godman's natural history of North America, &c."--Note to the critics, p. [3], signed: P.P.
Compiled by Samuel G. Goodrich. Cf. his Recollections of a lifetime (New York, 1856), v. 2, p. 540.
Includes index.
Reproduction of original from The American Antiquarian Society.
Sabin no. 27912.
Title-vignette.
Physical Description:343 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Access:Electronic access restricted to Villanova University patrons