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Visions of the world outside your front door seen through an 1837 haze. Imagery from “Peter Parley’s Wonders of the Earth, Sea and Sky.” Edited by the Reverend Thomas Wilson. Published in London by Darton and Clark, Holborn Hill, and entered at Stationer’s Hall. Peter Parley (pen name of Samuel G. Goodrich), author. Lithographs, some hand-colored.
Aurora Borealis. Frontispiece, Image 5 of Peter Parley’s Wonders of the Earth, Sea, and Sky. Peter Parley, author. Thomas Wilson, editor. Published in 1837 by Darton and Clark, Holborn Hill, London, England. Thomas Fisher Biodiversity Library, University of Toronto. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/peterparleyswond00good/page/n5/mode/1upExtinct Animals. Image 26 of Peter Parley’s Wonders of the Earth, Sea, and Sky. Peter Parley, author. Thomas Wilson, editor. Published in 1837 by Darton and Clark, Holborn Hill, London, England. Thomas Fisher Biodiversity Library, University of Toronto. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/peterparleyswond00good/page/n26/mode/1upVesuvius Number 2. Image 98 of Peter Parley’s Wonders of the Earth, Sea, and Sky. Peter Parley, author. Thomas Wilson, editor. Published in 1837 by Darton and Clark, Holborn Hill, London, England. Thomas Fisher Biodiversity Library, University of Toronto. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/peterparleyswond00good/page/n98/mode/1upGeysers of Iceland. Image 112 of Peter Parley’s Wonders of the Earth, Sea, and Sky. Peter Parley, author. Thomas Wilson, editor. Published in 1837 by Darton and Clark, Holborn Hill, London, England. Thomas Fisher Biodiversity Library, University of Toronto. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/peterparleyswond00good/page/n112/mode/1upFalls of Niagara. Image 117 of Peter Parley’s Wonders of the Earth, Sea, and Sky. Peter Parley, author. Thomas Wilson, editor. Published in 1837 by Darton and Clark, Holborn Hill, London, England. Thomas Fisher Biodiversity Library, University of Toronto. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/peterparleyswond00good/page/n177/mode/1upEscape on the Ice. Image 201 of “Peter Parley’s Wonders of the Earth, Sea, and Sky.” Peter Parley, author. Thomas Wilson, editor. Published in 1837 by Darton and Clark, Holborn Hill, London, England. Thomas Fisher Biodiversity Library, University of Toronto. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/peterparleyswond00good/page/n201/mode/1upNo caption but I think it is an Esquimaux family watching the Aurora Borealis. Image 255 of “Peter Parley’s Wonders of the Earth, Sea, and Sky.” Peter Parley, author. Thomas Wilson, editor. Published in 1837 by Darton and Clark, Holborn Hill, London, England. Thomas Fisher Biodiversity Library, University of Toronto. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/peterparleyswond00good/page/255/mode/1up
The author was American but at the time this book was published the great printers and publishers were in London as they had been for 100 years at least by then so printed/published in London and entered at the Stationers Hall there. Except for the art books. Those were printed in Paris.
On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.
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