Beschreibung:

8°, circa 21,5 x 13,5 cm., 2 ff., 428 pp., 4 large engraved folding plates. Contemporary wrapper Barbier II, 859. - "Il a été fait de cet ouvrage quatre éditions chacune sous un titre différent". (Hoefer). Here the third altered edition of the work publihed previously under the title "Ornithologie artificielle". The author descibes how to create an ideal environment for birds to live healthily and multiply. The four large plates show large structures with heating, ventilation, methods of feeding etc.

Bemerkung:

- Nice, only minor browning, very little spotting but mostly clean. Uncut and unopened, partly on blueish paper, in the first simple wrapper.