Practical Taxidermy a manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting preserving and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds to which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums Second Edition revised 1884
by Browne, Montagu
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good with some marginalia/no dustwrapper
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About This Item
London: L. Upcott Gill, 1884. 2nd Edition. hardbound. Good with some marginalia/no dustwrapper. 8vo. b&w illustrations 2nd Edition (revised and enlarged with additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy) of Montagu Browne's illustrated guide to taxidermy for the amateur; chapters on decoying and trapping animals, tools, preservatives, skinning, birds, mammals, fish, modelling, etc; b&w text illustrations, full-page plates, and including a fold-out chart; brown boards with gilt titling, and illustration of taxidermied bird to front; former owner's name to prelims, heavy foxing to endpapers and prelims, lighter scattered foxing throughout; some margin notes in pencil; boards edgeworn and rubbed and with worn patches.
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- Bookseller
- Gotcha By The Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23698
- Title
- Practical Taxidermy a manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting preserving and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds to which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums Second Edition revised 1884
- Author
- Browne, Montagu
- Format/Binding
- Hardbound
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with some marginalia
- Jacket Condition
- no dustwrapper
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- L. Upcott Gill
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1884
- Pages
- 354pp (xxxii)
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- Antiquarian and Rare Books;
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