A Natural History of English Song-birds, and Such of the Foreign as are Usually Brought Over and Esteem'd for Their Singing: To which are Added, Figures of the Cock, Hen, and Egg of Each Species, Exactly Copied from Nature ... and Curiously Engraven on Copper : Also a Particular Account how to Order the Canary-birds in Breeding : Likewise Their Diseases and CureC. Ware, 1759 - 96 pages |
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