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The bird-fancyer's delight. Or choice observations and directions concerning the taking, feeding, breeding, curing and teaching all sorts of singing birds : also how to take birds with lime-twigs, and to make water bird-lime. With the maladies and distempers incident to singing-birds, likewise an infallible rule to know the cock from the hen; and many other observations relating thereto. The like not extant

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: Printed in the year 1711.
Call number: 646096
Provenance: Purchased from Christopher Edwards Antiquarian Books & Manuscripts, November 2016. Autograph: Mrs. Vernon Hilton Park. Autograph: Ebenezer Brown[?] liveing in Ratlife Square[?] at Ratlife Cross[?].
Dimensions: 16 cm (12mo)
Associated people: Ward, Thomas
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