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The epitome of the art of husbandry. Comprizing all necessary directions for the improvement of it ... To which is annexed by way of appendix, a new method of planting fruit-trees, and improving of an orchard: with directions for taking, ordering, teaching, and curing of singing birds, and other useful addition / By J.B. Gent.
Blagrave, Joseph, 1610-1682.Date: 1675- Pictures
Green trees line two paths, a small figure with a dog walks along another path, to the front bottom right is a robin. Gouache by Brenda Marshall, 1956.
Marshall, Brenda, active approximately 1956-1958.Date: 14/12/56 [14 December 1956]Reference: 3005083iPart of: Adamson Collection- Books
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The new and complete bird-fancyer; or bird-fancyer's recreation and delight. Containing the newest and very best instructions for catching, taking, feeding, rearing, &c. all the various sorts of song-birds, Particularly, Nightingales, Larks, Goldfinches, Bullfinches, Robins, Canary-Birds, Black-Birds, Thrushes, Sterlings, Linnets, &c. &c. Including, among other Particulars, A full Account of all their several Distempers, and the best Methods of curing them. Likewise the surest Means of distinguishing the Cock from the Hen, and of learning them to sing to the greatest Perfection. Together with Many other useful Particulars relative to Singing Birds, too numerous to mention in a Title-Page. The whole revised, corrected, and improved, by Mr. William Thompson, Late Gardener to the Duke of Ancaster, and Author of New Gardeners Calendar; who has made the Management of Birds his favourite Study upwards of Twenty Years. Assisted by the most eminent Fancyers. Embellished with a beautiful frontispiece, elegantly designed and executed.
Thompson, William, 1759-1811.Date: [1783?]
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On certain variations in the vocal organs of the passeres : that have hitherto escaped notice / Johannes Muller ; the translation by F. Jeffrey Bell ; edited, with an appendix, by A.H. Garrod.
Date: 1878
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A bird singing on the branch of a tree, with purple zigzags above. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1973.
Bishop, Mary, (Mary Cecil Hamilton), 1914-1990.Date: April 73 [April 1973]Reference: 2897620iPart of: Adamson Collection