Notice of the Megatherium cuvieri : the giant fossil ground-sloth of South America, presented to the University of Rochester, by Hiram Sibley

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The instance Notice of the Megatherium cuvieri : the giant fossil ground-sloth of South America, presented to the University of Rochester, by Hiram Sibley represents a material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Internet Archive - Open Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Instance, Electronic.

Label

Notice of the Megatherium cuvieri : the giant fossil ground-sloth of South America, presented to the University of Rochester, by Hiram Sibley

Link

• https://archive.org/details/noticeofmegather00ward
• http://www.sil.si.edu/link?bpE34U
• https://openlibrary.org/books/OL26322660M

Title remainder

the giant fossil ground-sloth of South America

Statement of responsibility

presented to the University of Rochester, by Hiram Sibley

Instantiates

• Notice of the Megatherium cuvieri : the giant fossil ground-sloth of South America

Publication

• Rochester, Unversity of Rochester?, 1864

Note

• Introduction signed and dated: Henry A. Ward. Rochester, July, 1864
• The leaf of plates is signed: Frauenberger del. & sc

Contents

Notice of the Megatherium -- Pichiciego -- Armadillo -- Aard-vark -- Sloth -- Mylodon -- Little Ant-Eater -- Great Ant-Eater -- Long-Tailed Manis -- Glyptodon -- Megalonyx

Extent

1 online resource (34 pages, [1] folded leaf of plates

Form of item

online

Immediate source of acquisition

Edward Rogers (Poncha Spring, Colorado);

Note

• SCNHRB c. 2 has the original blind- and gilt-stamped brown embossed cloth binding with an illustration of a Megatherium skeleton on front cover; housed in an archival envelope for preservation.
• SCNHRB has two copies.
• SCNHRB c. 1 (39088016912107) has stamp on t.p.: Library of Craig C. Black. Accession number [?]: 205[?]6.
• SCNHRB c. 1 has bookplates: 1) Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Purchased from the Cullman Endowment; and 2) Smithsonian Libraries Adopt-a-Book Program, Adopted by James Mead.
• SCNHRB c. 1 has the original blind- and gilt-stamped burgundy embossed cloth binding with an illustration of a Megatherium skeleton on front cover; re-backed and with new endpapers. There is slight waterstaining along the top of the leaves in the volume.
• SCNHRB c. 2 (39088016912388) has stamps: 1. S.F. Baird (with Baird's autograph in ink on t.p.); 2. Library, U.S. National Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Mar. 3, 1882, accession no.: 124938.
• SCNHRB c. 2 has the original blind- and gilt-stamped brown embossed cloth binding with an illustration of a Megatherium skeleton on front cover; housed in an archival envelope for preservation.

Other physical details

illustrations)

Record ID

noticeofmegather00ward

Specific material designation

remote