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Poultry

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  • Old Calabar dog biscuits : allegro : à tout vitesse.
  • Old Calabar dog biscuits : allegro : à tout vitesse.
  • Dr. to H. F. Richards : Poulterer, game, butter & egg dealer & provision merchant : terms monthly.
  • Two hens feeding with chicks in the foreground with a broody hen with younger chicks behind. Etching by H Bonnart.
  • A cockerel surrounded by sparrows and a hen pecking the ground. Engraving by P. Tempest, ca. 1690, after F. Barlow.
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    A cockerel with hens and chicks looking for food outside a pig sty. Engraving by P. Tempest, ca. 1690, after F. Barlow.

    Barlow, Francis, 1622-1704. | Date: 1690 | Reference: 42813i
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    Some experiments on the changes which take place in the fixed principles of the egg during incubation.

    Prout, William, 1785-1850. | Date: 1822
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    Peter denies knowledge of Christ; men play cards. Engraving by R. Delaunay after Marchais after D. Teniers.

    Teniers, David, 1610-1690. | Date: 1809 | Reference: 22993i
    Part of: Musée français.
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    A treatise on the history and management of ornamental and domestic poultry / by Edmund Saul Dixon ; with large additions by J. J. Kerr.

    Dixon, Edmund Saul, 1809-1893. | Date: 1857
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    Poultry keeping / by E. Comyns-Lewer and Sidney H. Lewer.

    Comyns-Lewer, E. (Ethel), 1861- | Date: [1912?]
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