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- Notes on Un-Natural History Being a Selection of Fictions Accounting As Facts
, Ward, Lock, and Tyler, 1868. . Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy, bound in green cloth over beveled boards, gilt lettering and flourish to front cover and spine. First Edition copy, bound in blind-ruled green cloth with gilt lettering and flourish to front cover and spine. Lightly soiled endpapers, previous owner's inscription, else clean and unmarked of interior. 152 pp. plus list of publisher's other current works. Eliza Gutch was the author also of Notes on the Months and other popular works. This book contains a wealth of home-spun homilies and gentle corrections as to popular but fallacious conclusions the general public has made about the way things are. For example, "If Eve ever thought that the enlargement of Adam's larynx was due to the forbidden apple* having stuck in his throat, it could not have been until she was in her dotage. If she ever believed that when her infants smiled in sleep, angels were talking to them, it must have been after her expulsion from Eden, for no babies were known in its blissful bowers. If she ever told herself that birds, by raising their heads aloft, say a grace after every draught, she showed an ignorance of ornithological anatomy, which, in the days before she fell, would not have been allowed to remain undissipated.*"Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good
USD 45.00 [Appr.: EURO 42 | £UK 36 | JP¥ 6884] Booknumber: 356700
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USD 45.00 [Appr.: EURO 42 | £UK 36 | JP¥ 6884] Booknumber: 356700
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Total: USD 45.00 [Appr.: EURO 42 | £UK 36 | JP¥ 6884]
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