Details

Subject(s)

• Plants—Specimens [Browse]
• Plants—Utilization—Juvenile literature [Browse]
• Animals—Specimens [Browse]
• Animals—Utilization—Juvenile literature [Browse]

Related name

• Oliver and Boyd (Edinburgh, Scotland) [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Wall charts [Browse]

Series

Oliver and Boyd's object-lesson cards

Notes

• Dated from an advertisement in the Publisher vol. 14: 67 (August 14, 1897).
• Table of contents of the entire series, "Oliver and Boyd's object-lesson cards on the vegentable, animal, and mineral kingdoms," pasted underneath the wooden box lid.
• Cards are grommeted with strings so that they may be hung.
• Specimens of plants and animals as well as materials/objects made from them are fasten on the cards.
• Princeton copy 1: The "vegetable kingdom" series is housed in publisher's wooden box (58 x 38 x 11 cm); the "animal kingdom" series is outside the publisher's box but insided the archival box.
• Princeton copy 1: Cards with specimens measure 34 cm in width; height varies. The bottom half of cards, originally carrying explanatory text, has been cut off.

Binding note

Pub. wooden lidded box, not labeled on top.

Contents

Oliver and Boyd's object-lesson cards on the vegetable kingdom, no. 18. Cocal-nut tree; the cacao tree.

Other title(s)

Oliver and Boyd's object-lesson cards on the animal kingdom.

OCLC

1389535424

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