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- A familiar history of birds : their nature, habits, and instincts / by the Rev. Edward Stanley ; two volumes, with engravings
A familiar history of birds : their nature, habits, and instincts / by the Rev. Edward Stanley ; two volumes, with engravings
Object Details
- Notes
- Publisher's advertisements: 7, [1] p. at end of v. 1 and 7, [1] p. at end of v. 2.
- "Published under the direction of the Committee of General Literature and Education, appointed by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge."
- Also available online.
- SCNHRB copy (39088015709298, 39088015709330) has bookplate of Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Alexander Wetmore. Inscribed in ink on 2nd front free endpaper of both vols.: A. Wetmore.
- SCNHRB copy inscribed in ink on 2nd front free endpaper of both vols.: Alfred Fuller.
- SCNHRB copy has occasional pencilled ms. corrections to the text.
- SCNHRB copy bound in green pebbled cloth, title in gilt on spine.
- Elecresource
- Data Source
- Smithsonian Libraries
- Date
- 1835
- Call number
- QL676 .S787 1835
- QL676.S787 1835
- Author
- Stanley, Edward 1779-1849
- former owner
- Fuller, Alfred DSI
- Wetmore, Alexander 1886-1978 DSI
- Type
- Juvenile literature
- Physical description
- 2 v., [15] leaves of plates : ill. ; 16 cm
- Title
- Stanley on birds DSI
- Topic
- Birds
- Birds--Behavior
- Birds--Nests
- Record ID
- siris_sil_151810
- Usage
- CC0