Excerpt from A Catalogue of the Library of John Jay Paul, Watertown, Florida: Principally Works on American Ethnology, Mammalogy, Ornithology, Herpetology and Botany<br><br>The collection listed in the following pages consists of works on American ethnology, mammalogy and ornithology, and to a lesser extent on herpetology and botany. Various other subjects are represented humor, the circus, Arctic voyages, travel - with a few early editions of favorite books and authors. Among these is the series of [esop's Fables, which show the progress made in depicting the more common animals from the period shortly after the invention of printing to the present time.<br><br>The illustrations are from photographs taken in the library, but no attempt has been made to reduce them to a scale.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.