Bound volume of coloured separately-issued prints, including the Australian kangaroo and emu
by [Educational Menagerie]
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
The explanatory text reflects a spirit of benevolent pedagogy. Take the description of the Emu for example: ‘These birds are widely spread over the southern part of New Holland, and the neighbouring islands. They are met with at Port Philip and King George's Sound. Their food consists almost wholly of fruits, roots and herbage; they are quite harmless, except when attacked... It is sometimes coursed for sport; being pursued by well-trained dogs, which run up abreast and make a sudden spring at the creatures neck. This, however, is a cruel amusement. We have no right to seek our pleasure in a dumb creatures pain...'
Aside from the Australian fauna, the collection includes fish, cetaceans, reptiles and all manner of old world mammals. Oblong album containing 119 handcoloured plates, bound in recent red cloth; repaired tears affect a few plates (Australian images unaffected), margins of the final seven plates chipped.
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- Bookseller
- Rare Illustrated Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1739
- Title
- Bound volume of coloured separately-issued prints, including the Australian kangaroo and emu
- Author
- [Educational Menagerie]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1860
- Keywords
- prints childrens illustration art animals natural history australian animals exotic wild animals decorative art
- Bookseller catalogs
- Animals; Australiana;
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