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The bird-fancer's [sic] recreation: : being curious remarks on the nature of song-birds, with choice instructions concerning the taking, feeding, breeding and teaching them, and 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

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [1740?].
Call number: 646458
Provenance: Purchased from Christopher Edwards Antiquarian Books & Manuscripts, February 2017. Autograph on front flyleaf: E.S. Dixon.
Dimensions: 15 cm (12mo)
Associated people: Ward, Thomas
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