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Rat baits and repellents

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  • A man goes into a barn and opens a rat trap; a rat jumps put and bites him on the chin. Etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.
  • A dying rat, mourned by three other rats; advertising Tord-Boyaux rat poison. Wood engraving, 18--.
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Catalogue

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    A man goes into a barn and opens a rat trap; a rat jumps put and bites him on the chin. Etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.

    Busby, Thomas Lord. | Date: [1826?] | Reference: 726070i
    • Pictures

    Three wrong ways of using rat poison: laying with insecticides, combustibles, and aromatic substances. Colour lithograph by L. Valdespino, 1981.

    | Date: [1981?] | Reference: 824436i
    • Pictures

    Use of rat poison, two dead rats and a drawing of a rat. Colour lithograph by L. Valdespino, 1981.

    | Date: [1981?] | Reference: 824449i
    • Ephemera

    Insects and pests ephemera. Box 1.

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    The universal directory for taking alive, or destroying, rats and mice : by a method hitherto unattempted and calculated as well for the use of ships and houses, as that of farmers and gardeners / by Thomas Swaine, of Greenwich, Kent, Ratcatcher to his Majesty's Royal Navy, Victualling-Offices, &c.

    Swaine, Thomas. | Date: 1783
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