Volume 2

The menageries. Quadrupeds, described and drawn from living subjects. Volume the first [-second] / Anon.

  • Rennie, James, 1787-1867.
Date:
1829-1831
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The menageries. Quadrupeds, described and drawn from living subjects. Volume the first [-second] / Anon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    BY LILLY & WAIT (Late Weuus & Linux) — ‘aa Rear of Boylston Market. — BERTHA’S VISIT TO HER UNCLE IN ENGLAND. Intwo volumes. [Illustrated and Improved from the London edition. \ a From the Advertisement to the American edition. No work has lately appeared, with the professed object of affording instruction and amusement to the young, that presents a greater variety of attraction than Bertha’s Visit. Its success in England has been astonishing, and the form in which it is now presented to the American public, we trust is caleulated | to insure as favourable a reception here. The plan of the work is as follows : — 4 ‘A young lady is, by peculiar circumstances, induced to quit her Mother at Rio Janeiro, and go to England on a “ Visit to her Uncle,’ an accomplished and exemplary Father of a family of daughters, with whom the young Bertha is domesti- eated for many months, and during the whole of which period she keeps a Journal of what she observes and learns. The: work consists of extracts from this Journal, and those extracts: comprise information on almost every subject of popular inte- rest and study : selected with excellent taste and judgment ; conveyed in language perfectly simple and intelligible, yet not