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Illustrated Natural History 



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JDesoriptions of Animals, Birds, JFishes, SeptiUt, 



Insects, Etc., with Sketches of their Peculiar 



Mabits and Characteristics, 



BY THE ^ ; 



REV. J. G. WOOD, M. A., • 



Author of " The lUustrateii Natural History of Man," " Insects at Home." 

 " Homes without Hands." Etc., Etc. 



HANDSOMELY ILLUSTRATED BY 30 ff FINE ENGRAVINGS. 



i2mo. size, 423 pages, neatly bound in Fine English Cloth, with 



superb gold and black stamps on side and back in appropriate 



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The above described volume has been written with the view 

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 by the prolixity of detail, or the too scientific character of the 

 work. Written in plain and familiar language, and divested of 

 most of the technicalities which are calculated rather to embarrass 

 than to inform the general reader, this, volume is so arranged as to 

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The text is illustrated by three hundred beautiful wood engraV' 

 ings, and a well arranged Index renders the work complete. 



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