THE COMMITTEE of GENERAL LITERATURE and EDUCATION, THE SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE. - Scripture Natural History; Being an Account of Animals, Trees, Plants, and Precious Stones Mentioned in Holy Scripture, Given Principally in Extracts from the Work of Travellers: Together with Some Remarks on Agriculture, Climate &c. With an Appendix. Published under the Direction of the Committee of General Literature and Education, Appointed by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.

London: Printed for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; Sold at the Depository, Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields; 4, Royal Exchange; 16, Hanover Street, Hanover Square; and by all Booksellers. c.1848. Hardcover. Embossed covers. Beautiful B/W illus. A little fraying to edges of spine, covers lightly marked, feps partly loose, a little wear to lower front corner. A scarce & interesting volume that provides scriptural references as well as descriptions of all kinds of animals, plants etc. from the fabled unicorn to the scorpion, to myrrh, to the Simoom (a "pestilential" wind found in Egypt & Nubia) etc. 452pp.

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