Author: K. A. Buist
Title: Birds, Their Cages and Their Keep: Being a Practical Manual of Bird-Keeping and Bird-Rearing
Description: London, Macmillan and Co, 1874 . First edition. Cloth. A charming example of this very scarce Victorian era guide to 'bird-keeping and bird-rearing', illustrated throughout. A very scarce first edition in the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding.Illustrated with a chromolithographic frontispiece, and with six monochrome engraved plates. Collated, complete.K. A. Buist discusses birds and their cages, with chapters dedicated to cleanliness, food, illness, breeding, and general health. With further focus on bird taming, performing birds, varieties of canaries, and 'hints on foreign birds&apos.With a thirty-four page publisher's catalogue to the rear, dated September 1874.Lacking half title.A delightful Victorian era guide to the keeping of pet birds. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, otherwise externally excellent. Front hinge strained, but firmly held. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and generally clean, with only the odd light handling mark or instance of spotting. Lacking half title. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .
Keywords: birdcages birds pet birds bird keeping birds Not Stated
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Title: Birds, Their Cages and Their Keep: Being a Practical Manual of Bird-Keeping and Bird-Rearing
Description: London, Macmillan and Co, 1874 . First edition. Cloth. A charming example of this very scarce Victorian era guide to 'bird-keeping and bird-rearing', illustrated throughout. A very scarce first edition in the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding.Illustrated with a chromolithographic frontispiece, and with six monochrome engraved plates. Collated, complete.K. A. Buist discusses birds and their cages, with chapters dedicated to cleanliness, food, illness, breeding, and general health. With further focus on bird taming, performing birds, varieties of canaries, and 'hints on foreign birds&apos.With a thirty-four page publisher's catalogue to the rear, dated September 1874.Lacking half title.A delightful Victorian era guide to the keeping of pet birds. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, otherwise externally excellent. Front hinge strained, but firmly held. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and generally clean, with only the odd light handling mark or instance of spotting. Lacking half title. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .
Keywords: birdcages birds pet birds bird keeping birds Not Stated
Price: GBP 550.00 = appr. US$ 785.39 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 922F28
- Book number: 922F28
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