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The ocean world: being a descriptive history of the sea and its living inhabitants. Chiefly translated from "La vie et les moeurs des animaux" by Louis Figuier. Illustrated by four hundred and twenty-seven engravings, chiefly designed under the direction of m. Ch. Bévalet, from specimens in the museums of Paris.

Main Author: Figuier, Louis, 1819-1894.
Other Authors: O., W. S. , W. S. O.
Language(s): English
Published: New York, D. Appleton & co., 1868.
Subjects: Ocean.
Marine animals.
Note: "Preface" signed: W. S. O.
In part compiled ... from the author's La terre et les mers ... but the larger portion of the work is a free translation of his ... La vie et les moeurs des animaux. Other chapters ... are compiled from various sources. cf. Pref.
Physical Description: xii, [3]-605, [1] p. illus., xxxii pl. (incl. front) 23cm.
Original Format: Book
Original Classification Number: QL121 .F47 1868
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