foreigner practical guide keeping breeding (8 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Fair. The wraps are rubbed and marked.No inscriptions.Soundly bound.EK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fair. The wraps are rubbed and marked.No inscriptions.Soundly bound.EK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fair. The wraps are rubbed and marked.torn.No inscriptions.Soundly bound.EK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fair. The wraps are rubbed and marked.No inscriptions.Soundly bound.EK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fair. The wraps are rubbed and marked.edgeworn.Stained to front end page.No inscriptions.Soundly bound.Soundly bound. EK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Volumes 1 - 3 1934 - 1936, small 8vo. Volume 1, 204 pp, Volume 2, 196 pp, Volume 3, 194 pp. Illustrations from photographs , drawings and coloured plates including some by H Gronvold. Original cloth bindings, some light staining to the edges of the boards of volume 3. Each volume has the book plate of William C Pelster with a lovely coloured painting depicting a Yelllow - naped Amazon parrot drawn for Mr Pelster by distinguished bird artist William T Cooper. A delightful journal issued by The Keston Foreign Bird Farm in Kent founded by Edward Boosey and Alec Brooksbank. The contributors include both Boosey and Brooksbank, Jean Delacour, Marques of Tavistock, John Yealland and Donald Risdon. Two further volumes were issued but the journal discontinued with the outbreak of war.

Octavo,five volumes,coloured and uncoloured plates. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt cockatoo, a very good set, scarce. The Keston Bird Farm, established by Edward Boosey in the 1920's was a very successful operation until World War Two and beyond. Although the business imported birds its main interest was in bird breeding and budgerigars were a staple. Boosey originally worked for the Duke of Bedford. He was a prolific writer and his best known book is Foreign bird keeping: forty years' experience in their breeding and management, first published 1956. The Foreigner is a delightful little publication with a lot of very interesting material. A very scarce sixth volume was published in 1939.

Vol. 5 part 1, vol.5 part 3, vol.5 part 4, vol.5 part 5, vol.6 part 6, 1938, bindings used (code V-147).