A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON BREEDING, REARING AND FATTENING OF ALL KINDS OF DOMESTIC POULTRY, PHEASANTS, PIGEONS, AND RABBITS; Also the Management of Swine, Milch Cows, and Bees; with Instructions for the Private Brewery, on Cider, Perry, and British Wine Making

Verlag: Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper, London, 1834

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12mo 7" - 7½" tall; x, 467, (1), 24 (ads) pages; 1834 Seventh Edition. Original owner's signature at top of titlepage -- "J. Stanley, M.D.", also there is a note in the owner's hand on P. viii of the Preface indicating the address of the nursery owned by Mr. Gibbs who is mentioned there in the preface. Otherwise clean and tight in original cloth binding with printed title label at spine; label is roned and rubbed, cloth at spine has a couple splits, but binding quite secure. Notably, the section on the Private Brewery was not included in the early editions of this classic work on animal husbandry and bee-keeping, and, according to the pPreface, this is the first edition to include information on British wine making (45 pp.). The author addresses this topic in two ways. First, "the extensive and fraudful adulteration of foreign Wines, in too many instances attended with fatal effects." Secondly, with respect to domestic substitutes, "consideration, as to the most perfect mode of their manufacture," including, management of casks, fermentation, the wine press, Painshill water addition, private family recipes, etc. A nice example of this scarce book in the contemporary cloth binding.…

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A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON BREEDING, REARING AND FATTENING OF ALL KINDS OF DOMESTIC POULTRY, PHEASANTS, PIGEONS, AND RABBITS; Also the Management of Swine, Milch Cows, and Bees; with Instructions for the Private Brewery, on Cider, Perry, and British Wine Making
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Moubray, Bonington
Verlag
Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper, London
Erscheinungsjahr
1834
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Hardcover
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Seventh.

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