Volumes 1 - 3 1934 - 1936, small 8vo. Volume 1, 204 pp, Volume 2, 196 pp, Volume 3, 194 pp. Illustrations from photographs , drawings and coloured plates including some by H Gronvold. Original cloth bindings, some light staining to the edges of the boards of volume 3. Each volume has the book plate of William C Pelster with a lovely coloured painting depicting a Yelllow - naped Amazon parrot drawn for Mr Pelster by distinguished bird artist William T Cooper. A delightful journal issued by The Keston Foreign Bird Farm in Kent founded by Edward Boosey and Alec Brooksbank. The contributors include both Boosey and Brooksbank, Jean Delacour, Marques of Tavistock, John Yealland and Donald Risdon. Two further volumes were issued but the journal discontinued with the outbreak of war.

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Title

The Foreigner - A Practical Guide to the Keeping, Breeding and Showing of all kinds of Foreign Birds and Budgerigars - Volumes 1 - 3

Publisher

Keston Foreign Bird Farm

Publication Date

1934

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition

No Jacket

Weight

2 kilograms

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Ornithology

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