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History and Anecdotes of the Elephant: with Beautiful Engravings
- Bookseller: Classic Books and Ephemera
(US)
- Bookseller Inventory #: 001249
- Book condition: Good+
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: S. Babcock
- Place: New Haven, Conn.
- Date published: 1840
Book Description
New Haven, Conn.: S. Babcock, 1840 16 p.: wood-engraved title vignette and 9 full-page wood-engraved illustrations; 11 cm. (4.25 inches). Pale pink wrappers printed in black with illustration on front wrapper; elaborate borders on both front and back wrappers. Publisher's advertisements on back wrapper. Front wrapper illustration is of an elephant's trunk; title vignette is of an elephant with its trunk around a tree. Inside of front and back wrapper contain full-page engravings of elephants within borders. Each page, both text and illustrations, is printed within decorative borders. One illustration also contains a rhinoceros; two show scenes of people tiger hunting with elephants. In Good+ Condition: wrapper just starting to separate at tail of spine; wrapper lightly soiled; staining/foxing throughout. A solid copy of this scarce children's book.. Good+.
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