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Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-09-14

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9781333608231

Excerpt from A Catalogue of the Library of John Jay Paul, Watertown, Florida: Principally Works on American Ethnology, Mammalogy, Ornithology, Herpetology and Botany The collection listed in the following pages consists of works on American ethnology, mammalogy and ornithology, and to a lesser extent on herpetology and botany. Various other subjects are represented humor, the circus, Arctic voyages, travel - with a few early editions of favorite books and authors. Among these is the series of [esop's Fables, which show the progress made in depicting the more common animals from the period shortly after the invention of printing to the present time. The illustrations are from photographs taken in the library, but no attempt has been made to reduce them to a scale. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.