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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
James W Buel |
OCLC Number: | 6408511 |
Description: | 1 preliminary leaf, 800 pages 2 leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm |
Responsibility: | By J.W. Buel ; illustrated with 300 engravings ... and ... colored plates. |
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a copy of the Philadelphia and St. Louis, Historical Pub. Co. 1887 print edition of book has THREE colored plates, not two as noted in OCLC record:
1. Frontispiece: THE SEA AND ITS WONDERS. (cutaway landscape/seascape showing above ground and below water mammals, sea life, and birds, including...
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a copy of the Philadelphia and St. Louis, Historical Pub. Co. 1887 print edition of book has THREE colored plates, not two as noted in OCLC record:
1. Frontispiece: THE SEA AND ITS WONDERS. (cutaway landscape/seascape showing above ground and below water mammals, sea life, and birds, including humans shooting guns and a polar bear attacking a walrus)
2. between page 374 and 375: PANORAMA OF NATURE. (African animals, birds, snakes, and human in gory stages of attacking or being attacked)
3. between page 742 and 743 (not listed in front matter LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS): TERRIBLE BATTLE WITH FAN CANNIBALS. AS SEEN BY DU CHAILLU. Lower left marked Plate 4 and lower right marked COPYRIGHTED 1887. (grisly scene with human cannibals and victims and burning huts)
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