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Title: Birds and nature
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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378 Wabash Avenue, Chicago BIRDS AND NATURE TWO YEARS $2.00.A tempting offer to when? Well, say April 1st. 1907. BEAUTIFUL ARTISTIC INSTRUCTIVE The Birds and Nature Library WILLIAM KERR HIOLEY, Editor Secretary of the Chicago Academy of Sciences This superb set of books should be in every home, in every school and in every library. Illustrated only b?the three-color process of photography. 640 illustrations in colors absolutely true to life. Size ofinches. 371 plates of Birds; 14 plates of Birds Nests and Eggs; 3 plates of Birds Eggs (49 varieties); 68 platesMammals; 18 plates of Insects (98 varieties); 9 plates of Shells (96 varieties); 86 plates of Flowers and Fruits;plates of Gems and Gem Minerals; 54 plates of miscellaneous subjects. These volumes are bound in red, half morocco, and consist of 80 numbers of Birds and Nature. Certainly no periodical, and probably no book, on birds ever found anythinglike such favor with the public as Birds and Natubb,—^tJ«nm<7 Post, New York.
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Are these pictures good? The statements of two eminent men are a sufficient guarantee:The pictures are astonishingly good. I like them so well that I shall putthem up on the walls of my rustic retreat, Slab Sides.—JoM Burroughs. You have certainly hit upon a method of reproducing colors with remark-able fidelity to nature.—2>r. Elliott Coues.The text of the books is most interesting and satisfactory. Both prose and poetry bring Nature home to theheart and mind in a captivating and delightful manner. Nature stories teach the younger readers, while reliableand readable articles present the great facts of Nature to minds more mature, awakening and fostering the loveof the animate life of our wonderful world. PRICE, Per Volume, 93.00 SPECIAL LimiTED OFFER.—Full set (8 double volumes) ^19.20, prepaid. Same in 16 vol-umes, cloth, $2.00 each. Complete set (16 single volumes) ^24.00, prepaid. MoNKY Back if You Want It. Ordkr Today A. W. nUHFORD & CO., Publishers, 37^ Wabash Ave,

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