“Our Animal Friends and Foes” by William Atherton Dupuy 1925 Vintage Hardcover

“Our Animal Friends and Foes” by William Atherton Dupuy

©️ 1925 Vintage Hardcover

Biological Survey on animals

Non-fiction

Previously owned and loved. Good Condition.

The cover is old and shows signs of wear. Most pages are clean of markings but there are some pencil marks.

This is a very nicely illustrated book about animals. Frog, domestic cat, shark, dog, garden slug, etc…

Exert From Preface:

Surrounded as we are by animal life, it is none the less true that few of us ever stopped to fit the beasts about us into their proper niches, to understand what they are, how they came about, what is the purpose they serve….

…. The biological survey studies animal life from the practical standpoint of its bearing on the welfare of the people. Its province is the conservation and upbuilding of the supply of useful and otherwise valuable forms of wild bird and animal life, including those classes as game and as Fur bearers, and the control of species such as wolves and moun…