Hack, Maria Barton (1777-1844) [but author not named]
Title
STORIES OF ANIMALS SECOND SERIES Intended for Children between Seven and ten Years old.
PlacePub
London
Publisher
Harvey and Darton
Date
1831
Illustrations
Engraved plates (8 but one in facsimile) dated 1830.
Description
130x100mm red roan backed marbled boards in blue slipcase (spine lacking 1.5cm of lower spine /tips worn/small chip to head of spine) 144pp marks of damp heavy on frontis and titlepage, reducing thereafter. Sources given at end of each chapter include Humboldt's Personal narrative, Bingley's Animal biography, Shaw's Zoology, and Bewick's History of quadrupeds (see Osborne p201 for a later edition). *Stories of an educational and factual nature on the animal kingdom - crocodile, alligators, otters, electric eels, wolves, bears etc. Author identified as Maria (Barton) Hack from Lawrence Darton, The Dartons: An annotated check-list (2004) p124.
Booknumber
P6147
Price
Price: GBP 18.00 or USD 22.00
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