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Hunting: traps and snares for catching ground-feeding birds. Coloured engraving.
Reference: 493571i- Pictures
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Hunting: traps and snares for catching ground-feeding birds. Coloured engraving.
Reference: 493572i- Books
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The bird fancier's recreation. Being curious remarks on the nature of song-birds, with choice instructions concerning the taking, feeding, breeding and teaching them, and how to know the cock from the hen. Also the manner of taking birds with lime-twigs, and the preparations necessary thereto. With an account of the distempers incident to song-birds, and the method to cure them.
Date: 1728- Pictures
Two boys in a cave: one of them holds a captured bird. Engraving by W. Walker, 1768, after C. Netscher.
Netscher, Caspar, 1635 or 1636-1684.Date: 1768Reference: 3010585i- Pictures
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A cottage at the junction of two roads: a waggon is driven along one of the roads, while a cowherd drives a cow along the other. Etching by J.C. Klengel, 1773.
Klengel, Johann Christian, 1751-1824.Date: [1773?]Reference: 2917470i- Pictures
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Hunting: traps and snares for catching ground-feeding birds. Engraving, c.1762 by B.-L. Prevost.
Reference: 493493i- Pictures
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Hunting: a trap for a ploughed field (top), and details of a trap for roosting birds (below) Engraving, c.1762, by Prevost after L.J. Goussier.
Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799.Reference: 493498i- Pictures
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Two men catching partridges by trapping them in a net and letting a dog track the birds down. Etching by W. S. Howitt.
Howitt, Samuel, 1765?-1822.Date: 21 February 1799Reference: 41686i- Pictures
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Hunting: two variants of a trap for catching roosting birds. Engraving, c.1762 by B.-L. Prevost after L.J. Goussier.
Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799.Reference: 493497i- Pictures
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Birds attacking an owl resting upon a staff held by a naked woman; representing patience. Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.
Murer, Christoph, 1558-1614.Date: 1622Reference: 26699iPart of: XL Emblemata miscella nova- Pictures
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Hunting: nets for catching ground-feeding birds, and a wolf-trap (?) Engraving, c.1762 by B.-L. Prevost.
Reference: 493458i- Pictures
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Hunting: a man stalking partridges (?) (top), a trap for catching ground-feeding birds. Engraving, c.1762 by Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.
Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799.Reference: 493499i- Pictures
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A compilation of hunting and trapping implements, arranged around a shell-shaped ornament into which a gin-trapped feline is clawing in its death-throes; including baits and decoys as well as birds of prey used for hunting. Etching by J.E. Ridinger.
Ridinger, Johann Elias, 1698-1767.Date: 10. May 1750Reference: 39350i- Books
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Hints on drains, traps, closets, sewer gas, and sewage disposal / P. Hinckes Bird.
Date: 1877- Books
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Hints on drains, traps, closets, sewer gas, and sewage disposal / by P. Hinckes Bird.
Bird, P. Hinckes (Peter Hinckes), 1827-1891.Date: 1877- Pictures
Countryside on an autumn morning: two men sawing a tree; a man holding up a bird-net; a windmill; and a bridge over a stream. Engraving by S. à Bolswert after Sir P.P. Rubens.
Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640.Date: [between 1638? and 1659?]Reference: 3063571i- Pictures
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Birds of the reed beds shown in their natural surroundings. Coloured lithograph by H. Schlegel.
Schlegel, H. (Hermann), 1804-1884.Date: 1860Reference: 43143i- Pictures
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St Pancras Wells, King's Cross, London: aerial view showing the "trap ball" ground, with men playing, St Pancras Church in the background. Etching.
Reference: 38750i- Pictures
A boy employed by a farmer as a bird-watcher (?) in a cornfield. Mezzotint by J. Ward, 1810.
Ward, James, 1769-1859.Date: Jan. 1st 1810Reference: 674401i- Pictures
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A man ejaculating, while holding a bird-trap on a bamboo pole to catch flying vaginas. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999?]Reference: 47696i- Ephemera
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Triptafen-DA for the patient trapped by depression and anxiety : wren.
Date: 1966- Pictures
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A fox about to fall into a pit-trap disguised with shrubwood. Etching by J.E. Ridinger.
Ridinger, Johann Elias, 1698-1767.Reference: 39292i- Pictures
A peasant is bringing in a net full of birds on the shore of a lake with two dead birds lying next to the net; illustration for a fable. Etching.
Reference: 39820i- Books
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What works in conservation. 2015 / edited by William J. Sutherland, Lynn V. Dicks, Nancy Ockendon and Rebecca K. Smith.
Date: [2015], ©2015- Books
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The sportsman's dictionary; or, the gentleman's companion: for town and country. Containing full and particular Instructions for Riding, Hunting, Fowling, Setting, Fishing, Racing, Farriery, Cocking, Hawking, &c. With The various Methods to be observed in Breeding and Dieting of Horses both for the Road and Turf; also, the Management of Dogs, Game-Cocks, Dunghill Fowls, Turkeys, Geese, Ducks, Pigeons, Singing-Birds, &c. And the Manner of Curing their various Diseases and Accidents. Collected from the best authors; with very considerable additions and improvements, by experienced gentlemen. Illustrated with copper-plates, representing all the different Kinds of Nets, Snares, and Traps, that are now made Use of.
Date: M.DCC.LXXVIII. [1778]