Birds - Early works to 1800
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The Bird-fancier's delight . Or Choice observations and directions concerning the taking, feeding, breeding and teaching all sorts of singing birds. Also how to take birds with lime-twigs, and to make the best water bird-lime. With the maladies and distempers incident to singing birds, and the way to cure them; likewise an insallible rule to know the cock from the hen: and many other observations relating thereto. The like not extant.
Date: 1714- E-books
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The new and complete bird-fancier, or, Bird fancier's recreation and delight . Containing the newest and very best instructions for catching, taking, feeding, rearing, &c. All the various sorts of song birds, particularly canary-birds, nightingales, larks, goldfinches, bullfinches, robins, black-birds, thrushes, starlings, linnets, &c. &c. Including, among other particulars, full accounts of all their several distempers, and the best methods of curing them. Likewise, the surest means of distinguishing the cock from the hen, and of learning them to sing to the greatest perfection. Together with many other useful particulars relative to singing birds, too numerous to mention in this title-page. The whole revised, corrected, and improved, by Mr. William Thompson, late gardener to the Duke of Ancaster, and author of the New gardener's calendar; who has made the management of birds his favourite study upwards of twenty years. Assisted by Mr. G. Wright, and the most eminent bird fanciers. Embellished, with beautiful engravings elegantly designed.
Thompson, William, 1759-1811.Date: [1800?]- E-books
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A New system of the gout and rheumatism. With a method of cure, from reason, observations, and experience . This book is given gratis, up one pair of stairs at the sign of Dr. Chamberlen's famous anodyne necklace for childrens teeth, fits, fevers, convulsions &c. Over against Devreux-Court, without Temple-Bar. And by the author's servant R. Bradshaw, at his house The Golden Key in Bambrige-Street, near Russel-Street end St. Giles's in the fields.
Date: 1731- E-books
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The History, of birds, with a famillier description of each in verse and prose. Adorned with cuts
Date: 1791- E-books
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The school of arts or new book of Useful Knowledge. Containing the management and breeding of canary birds. Monthly Observations in the Orchard, Kitchen and Flower Gardens Observations in Husbandry, in the Manuring, Plowing, Weeding, and Enriching of Land. The Vermin Killer; teaching how to destroy Bugs, Lice, Fleas, Mice, Rats, Moles, Weasels, Pole-Cats, Badgers, Foxes, Otters, Wasps, Worms, Snails, Flies, Pisinires, Caterpillars, Spiders, &c. Those rare secrets how to catch Fish, and make Bird Lime, together with a valuable collection of receipts, for the cure of most disorders incident to horse and beasts, with the management of Horses on Journies, by J. Cundall, late of Brandsby. To which is added, the whole art of painting in oil & water colours. Gilding with Gold and Silver. The Method of colouring Maps. The curious Art of Varnishing and Japanning, with Receipts for making Varnish and Japan. To stain Wood, Horn, Bone, Ivory, Leather, Paper and Parchment, different Colours. To take Spots out of Silks, Stuffs, Linen, or Woollen, and many other Things worthy of Note.
Cundall, J.Date: [1790?]