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Ward, Henry A.
Animals, Fossil
Megatherium
Sloths, Fossil
Sloths
Sloths
Baird, Spencer Fullerton
Black, Black, Craig Call
Frauenberger, George F
Sibley, Hiram
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
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
Full Text:
CC0
Notes:
Introduction signed and dated: Henry A. Ward. Rochester, July, 1864
The leaf of plates is signed: Frauenberger del. & sc.
Also available online
Contents:
Notice of the Megatherium -- Pichiciego -- Armadillo -- Aard-vark -- Sloth -- Mylodon -- Little Ant-Eater -- Great Ant-Eater -- Long-Tailed Manis -- Glyptodon -- Megalonyx
Local Note:
Elecresource
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
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QE882 .E2W37 1864 (Internet)
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QE882 .E2W37 1864
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QE882 .E2W37 1864 quarto
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