Natural history for little folks

/ Peter G. Thomson, publisher. Cincinnati, OH : Peter G. Thomson, [c.1883]. Small quarto (257 x 193 mm), original cloth-backed pictorial boards, the upper board featuring illustrations of kangaroos and a cockatoo (some restoration at corners of upper board); edges stained yellow; first blank with a gift inscription ‘Gilbert C. Greenway from his mother, Xmas 1883’; pp. [2], 16 (Birds), 16 (Our farm-yard friends), 16 (Our forest friends), 16 (Wild animals); with charming, brightly coloured chromolithographic illustrations throughout, including a number of full-page plates; front hinge cracked (but holding firm), one leaf with a short repaired tear, outermost leaves with a fairly insignificant water stain to head of gutter, occasional small marks, else internally clean; a good copy.

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