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MERRILL, Rufus (Publisher)
The Natural History of Birds.
New Hampshire, Merrill, circa Concord, 1850. Duodecimo, with twelve wood-engravings; original pictorial wrappers, crudely sewn at spine, some tears at gutter and at foot of a couple of leaves, dusted, some foxing and stains, presentation inscription from a teacher to a student on verso of cover. Rare American children's natural history primer, including a lyrebird. Each of the ten birds is fully described and illustrated with naïve word blocks. "The Lyre Bird of New Holland" is pictured with a description of its appearance, habits and song, "This singular bird lives almost wholly on the ground, like our common poultry... The inhabitants of New Holland even call it the mountain pheasant. Its voice is far more melodious than either the bird of paradise or any domestic fowls...".
The heading on the front wrapper reads "Museum of Natural History", indicating that it was evidently part of a series by this publisher. Early ephemeral books for children rarely survive, and this one with an Australian reference is not known to Ferguson.
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