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Title: The Animal Food Resources of the Different Nations, with mention of some of the special dainties of various people ...
Description: London, Spon 1885. Octavo publisher's red cloth (this a bit darkened); 461pp. ¶ First (only?) edition and a much more serious effort than his cursory 'Curiosities of Animal Food' (1859). Mr Simmonds made a speciality of serious books that will outrage the animal liberationists and vegans. He has outdone himself here. This is an encyclopaedia of what and how virtually every living creature (and their various spawn) on the planet can be, and has been, ingested. After a general introduction and chapter on cannibalism, we eat our way through the mammals of the world (including our own marsupials), birds, eggs, reptiles, fish, molluscs, insects and radiata, without missing leeches and worms. Much of local and Pacific interest of course.

Keywords: technology food cooking c19th natural history anthropology science

Price: AUD 200.00 = appr. US$ 138.37 Seller: Richard Neylon, Bookseller
- Book number: 4654