the Book of home Pets Showing How to Rear & manage, in Sickness & in health, Birds Poultry Pigeons Rabbits Guinea Pigs Dogs Cats Squirrels Fancy Mice Tortoises Bees Silkworms Ponies Donkeys Goat Inhabitants of the Aquarium Etc
by Beeton, Samuel Orchart
- Used
- poor
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Poor
- Seller
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Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London: S.O. Beeton, 1862. Scarse first edition, dated from preface. Illustrated with more than 200 woodbuts and some beautiful colour plates, still completely bright and vibrant. 832 pages. Blue boards with gilt titles, leather spine with gilt titles and decorations. Covers are very worn, almost coming away. Backstrip very frayed. Interior pages quite good, clean and unmarked.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Poor.
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- Bookseller
- Turtle Creek Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 095594
- Title
- the Book of home Pets Showing How to Rear & manage, in Sickness & in health, Birds Poultry Pigeons Rabbits Guinea Pigs Dogs Cats Squirrels Fancy Mice Tortoises Bees Silkworms Ponies Donkeys Goat Inhabitants of the Aquarium Etc
- Author
- Beeton, Samuel Orchart
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Poor
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- S.O. Beeton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1862
- Keywords
- JESL Animal Husbandry Pets
- Bookseller catalogs
- .Antiquarian - 19th Century;
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- Gilt
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- First Edition
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- Poor
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