Andrew Lang - The animal story book - 1896

The animal story book - Longmans, Green and co, 1896 - (XIV) 400 pp - Linnen band met verguld afbeelding van leeuw op voorplat, goud op snede

Goed. Wat schaafplekjes randen en hoeken. Naam op schutblad geschreven. Binnenwerk verkleurd, hier daar een plek/foxing, heviger op eerste en laatste 3 bladen. (licht) vochtplek(je) in zijmarge van begin t/m pagina 22 en vanaf pagina 352 tot einde. Binnenscharnier voor iets open, binnenmarge op 3 plaatsen open - boekblok vast in band.

Bevat frontispiece en 28 paginagrote platen + enkele tientallen in de tekst (alle aanwezig)

Contains 65 stories about animals. Some of them are simple accounts of how animals live in the wild. Others are stories about pets, or remarkable wild animals, or about hunting expeditions. Many are taken from Alexandre Dumas.
"'Tom': an Adventure in the Life of a Bear in Paris"
"Saï the Panther"
"The Buzzard and the Priest"
"Cowper and his Hares"
"A Rat Tale"
"Snake Stories"
"What Elephants can Do"
"The Dog of Montargis"
"How a Beaver builds his House"
"The War Horse of Alexander"
"Stories about Bears"
"Stories about Ants"
"The Taming of an Otter"
"The Story of Androcles and the Lion"
"Monsieur Dumas and his Beasts"
"The Adventures of Pyramus"
"The Story of a Weasel"
"Stories about Wolves"
"Two Highland Dogs"
"Monkey Tricks and Sally at the Zoo"
"How the Cayman was killed"
"The Story of Fido"
"Beasts Besieged"
"Mr. Gully"
"Stories from Pliny"
"The Strange History of Cagnotte"
"Still Waters Run Deep; or, the Dancing Dog"
"Theo and his Horses: Jane, Betsy, and Blanche"
"Madame Théophile and the Parrot"
"The Battle of the Mullets and the Dolphins"
"Monkey Stories"
"Eccentric Bird Builders"
"The Ship of the Desert"
"Hame, hame, hame, where I fain wad be"
"Nests for Dinner"
"Fire-eating Djijam"
"The Story of the Dog Oscar"
"Dolphins at Play"
"The Starling of Segringen"
"Grateful Dogs"
"Gazelle"
"Cockatoo Stories"
"The Otter who was reared by a Cat"
"Stories about Lions"
"Builders and Weavers"
"More Faithful than Favoured"
"Dolphins, Turtles, and Cod"
"More about Elephants"
"Bungey"
"Lions and their Ways"
"The History of Jacko I."
"Signora and Lori"
"Of the Linnet, Popinjay, or Parrot, and other Birds that can Speak"
"Patch and the Chickens"
"The Fierce Falcon"
"Mr. Bolt, the Scotch Terrier"
"A Raven's Funeral"
"A Strange Tiger"
"Halcyons and their Biographers"
"The Story of a Frog"
"The Woodpecker Tapping on the Hollow Oak Tree"
"Dogs Over the Water"
"The Capocier and his Mate"
"Owls and Marmots"
"Eagles' Nests"

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