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The Riverside Natural History. Edited By John Sterling...

by more than 2,200 Woodcuts in the Text, 168 Full- Page Engravings, and 12 Plates in Colour. (Kogan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—It may be doubted if there has ever been published a......

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