Cage and chamber-birds : their natural history, habits, food, diseases, management, and modes of capture.
Johann Matthäus Bechstein (1757-1822)
Category
Books
Date
1853
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3201365
Summary
Bibliographic description
xvi, 500 p., [30] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18cm. Bookseller's ticket on upper cover: "J. Colbran, bookseller, Tunbridge Wells, Circulating Library". Provenance: Inscribed on title page: "Isabel Mosley". Binding: Nineteenth-century publisher's blind embossed green cloth (faded to brown mostly), gilt lettering on spine. Publisher's advertisement on endpapers.
Makers and roles
Johann Matthäus Bechstein (1757-1822), author Henry Gardiner Adams (1811/12 - 1881), author Robert Sweet (1783-1835)