The Natural History of Cage Birds

PHOTOS
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PUBLISHER
W.S. Orr and Co. London.

BINDING
Black embossed cloth boards with gilt lettering.

BOOK CONDITION
Boards are generally worn and scuffed Binding secure. A little foxing and marking throughout, but printed pages and illustrations are mainly clear. Booksellers embossed stamp, previous owners name in ink dated 1887 and another owners small blue address stamp.

DUST JACKET
No.

EDITION
English translation of the third 1812 German edition, 1838.

DESCRIPTION
Gilt block to all page edges. Frontispiece and title page engravings, many further illustrations both full page and within the text, and on chapter headings. Small volume 16mo, 311 pp.

SYNOPSIS
Subtitled, "Their Management, Habits, Food, Diseases, Treatment, Breeding, and the Methods of Catching Them."