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[ANIMAL EXHIBITIONS – ORANGUTAN] SOME ACCOUNT OF THE ORANG OUTANG, COLLECTED FROM THE BEST AUTHORITIES. Boston: J.H. & F.F. Farwell, 1844. Pictorial printed wrappers. 24pp. 12mo.
Pamphlet, presumably published alongside the exhibition of an orangutan. “There have been several Orang Outangs brought to this country… [but] there has never been a more perfect or interesting specimen, than the one here…She is four years old, and was brought to this country in the brig Northumberland, arrived at Salem early in the month of August, 1844.” With an illustration of the orangutan dressed as a woman, with a bowl and spoon. Lower cover advertises the Boston Museum and Gallery of Fine Arts, with rare specimens of animals, where the orangutan might have been exhibited.