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Title: Goldsmith's Natural History; Abridged for the Use of Schools
Author: Oliver Goldsmith; abridged by Mrs. Pilkington; revised and corrected by a teacher of Philadelphia
Topic: Natural history of animals adapted for school instruction, with appendix on Linnaean classification
Publisher: Desilver, Thomas & Co., Philadelphia
Year: 1835 (Fourteenth Edition)
Binding: Rebound brown leather hardcover with black spine label and gilt titles
Format: Illustrated 19th-century school science text with wood-engraved animal plates, some hand-colored, plus appendix and question sets for the examination of students
Language: English
Country of origin: United States of America
Special attributes: Illustrated throughout and inscribed, including an early ownership inscription reading "Amanda Clark, Fairmount, May 25, 1858" on a front leaf
Contents: Introduction; animals of the horse, ass, and zebra kinds; ruminating animals including the cow, urus, bison, buffalo, and zebu; animals of the sheep and goat kinds; the musk animal; animals of the deer kind; animals of the hog kind; animals of the cat kind including the panther, leopard, tiger, and related species; animals of the dog kind; animals of the weasel kind; additional sections on birds and other creatures; appendix exhibiting the classification of Linnaeus and a series of questions to aid the preceptor in examining students
Subject: Natural history, zoology, science & medicine education, 19th-century school textbooks
Keywords: Goldsmith's Natural History, Mrs Pilkington, Desilver Thomas & Co 1835, school natural history textbook, Linnaeus classification appendix, illustrated animal engravings, dodo and sea eagle plates, brown leather hardcover, USA