Excerpt from Natural History With Anecdotes: Illustrating the Nature, Habits, Manners and Customs of Animals, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, Insects, Etc Zoology. Zoology is the science of animal life. It deals with the origin of species, and the evolution of the varied forms of animated nature, and treats of the structure, habits, and environment of all living creatures. Scientifically speak ing, Zoology is the classified arrangement of all known truths concerning all animal organisms. About the Publisher Forgotten Books ...
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Excerpt from Natural History With Anecdotes: Illustrating the Nature, Habits, Manners and Customs of Animals, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, Insects, Etc Zoology. Zoology is the science of animal life. It deals with the origin of species, and the evolution of the varied forms of animated nature, and treats of the structure, habits, and environment of all living creatures. Scientifically speak ing, Zoology is the classified arrangement of all known truths concerning all animal organisms. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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Fair. No Jacket. Hardcover. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, corners are lightly bumped and rubbed, some shelf wear, front and rear hinges are cracked and loose, some foxing, bottom portion of plate no. 4 has been torn away, overall a clean used first edition! Olive green cloth with an illustration of a rhino in gray and gilt and black lettering on the front and gilt and black lettering on the spine. 385 historical pages of text and 20 wonderful pages of full-color chromolithographed plates! "Illustrations are like windows to the house of knowledge. They let light in upon the understanding and they facilitate the outlook upon truth and beauty. to illustrate is to help one sense by the use of another, to reason by analogy and to teach the unknown by the known. When definition fails, illustration often carries conviction, and the most successful teachers are those who make the best use of sound and telling illustrations. How many lessons would have been wholly forgotten by us, but for the illustrations which made their meanings clear and left their truths for ever in our minds? ....."----from the Preface.
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