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  • Ward, Henry A.
     
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  • Animals, Fossil
     
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  • Megatherium
     
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  • Sloths, Fossil
     
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  • Sloths
     
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  • Sloths
     
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  • Baird, Spencer Fullerton
     
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  • Black, Black, Craig Call
     
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  • Frauenberger, George F
     
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  • Sibley, Hiram
     
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  • University of Rochester
     
     
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    Notice of the Megatherium cuvieri the giant fossil ground-sloth of South America / presented to the University of Rochester, by Hiram Sibley
     
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    Author: 
    Ward, Henry A. (Henry Augustus) 1834-1906 author
    Title: 
    Notice of the Megatherium cuvieri the giant fossil ground-sloth of South America / presented to the University of Rochester, by Hiram Sibley
    Publisher: 
    [Rochester] [Unversity of Rochester?] [1864]
    Description: 
    34 pages, [1] folded leaf of plates illustrations 29 cm
    Related Elec. Res.: 
    Digital bookplate, SCHNRB copy 1, 39088016912107:  http://www.sil.si.edu/link?bpE34U
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    Notes: 
    Introduction signed and dated: Henry A. Ward. Rochester, July, 1864
    The leaf of plates is signed: Frauenberger del. & sc.
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    Contents: 
    Notice of the Megatherium -- Pichiciego -- Armadillo -- Aard-vark -- Sloth -- Mylodon -- Little Ant-Eater -- Great Ant-Eater -- Long-Tailed Manis -- Glyptodon -- Megalonyx
    Local Note: 
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    SCNHRB has two copies
    SCNHRB copy 1 (39088016912107) has stamp on title page: Library of Craig C. Black. Accession number [?]: 205[?]6
    SCNHRB copy 1 has bookplates: 1) Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Purchased from the Cullman Endowment; and 2) Smithsonian Libraries Adopt-a-Book Program, Adopted by James Mead
    SCNHRB copy 1 has the original blind- and gilt-stamped burgundy embossed cloth binding with an illustration of a Megatherium skeleton on front cover; re-backed and with new endpapers. There is slight waterstaining along the top of the leaves in the volume
    SCNHRB copy 2 (39088016912388) has stamps: 1. S.F. Baird (with Baird's autograph in ink on title page); 2. Library, U.S. National Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Mar. 3, 1882, accession number: 124938
    SCNHRB copy 2 has the original blind- and gilt-stamped brown embossed cloth binding with an illustration of a Megatherium skeleton on front cover; housed in an archival envelope for preservation
    Subject: 
    Animals, Fossil
    Megatherium
    Sloths, Fossil
    Sloths
    Sloths
    Added Author: 
    Baird, Spencer Fullerton 1823-1887 former owner
    Black, Black, Craig Call (Craig Call) 1932-1998 former owner
    Frauenberger, George F illustrator
    Sibley, Hiram 1807-1888 contributor
    University of Rochester
    Added Title: 
    Megatherium cuvieri, University of Rochester
    Giant fossil ground-sloth of South America
    Catalog Source No.: 
    (OCoLC)4200584
    Copy/Holding information
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    QE882 .E2W37 1864 (Internet)Electronic Resourcese1001434Cataloged Request Copy
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    QE882 .E2W37 1864Cullman Library Rare Books39088016912107Checked Inc. 1Request Copy
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    QE882 .E2W37 1864 quartoCullman Library Rare Books39088016912388Checked Inc. 2Request Copy
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