Insect-Eating Birds. The Farmer's Best Friends. A Prize Essay.
by PALMER, Frank H
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 1873. First edition. Octavo (9.5" x 6.5"), 12 pages including covers, with illustrations from woodcuts throughout. Publisher's pictorial paper wraps, sewn. OCLC locates 11 copies under 3 accession numbers as of 4/7/2024.
Moderately toned & soiled, edge wear including shallow creasing at the corners, otherwise good or better.
"This essay received the first prize offered by the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals at the New-England Agricultural Fair in 1872." ~Taken from the front cover.
"Will not every one who has a a dozen rods of land make a bird house of some kind, and thus help restore the proper proportions of the feathered and insect races?" ~Excerpted from the text.
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- Seller
- Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 1912
- Title
- Insect-Eating Birds. The Farmer's Best Friends. A Prize Essay.
- Author
- PALMER, Frank H
- Format/Binding
- Pamphlet
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1873
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Frank H. Palmer, Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Birds, Insects, Farming, Illustrated
- Bookseller catalogs
- Social Movements, Protest, Labor; Education; Agriculture, Farming, Ranching; Animal Welfare;
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