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The complete pigeon-fancier, or, a new treatise on domestic pigeons. Containing the most valuable Information concerning the Nature, Properties, and Management of all their various Species, under the following Heads; 1. An useful, comprehensive, and entertaining Natural History of Pigeons. 2. Full and ample Directions for Building a Pigeon-House, or Dove-Cote. 3. Plain and necessary Instructions for stocking and managing the Pigeon-House, or Dove-Cote, with a particular Account of those Pigeons which are most advantageous for that Purpose; and an Abstract of the Laws now in Force relating to Pigeons. 4. Account of the best Methods now in Practice, for preventing Pigeons from leaving their Habitations. 5.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Girton, Daniel
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London printed for Alexander Hogg, No. 16, Pater-Noster-Row 1790, [1790?]
Subjects:
Pigeons / Early Works To 1800
Online Access:
Collection: Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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100 1 |a Girton, Daniel 
245 0 0 |a The complete pigeon-fancier, or, a new treatise on domestic pigeons. Containing the most valuable Information concerning the Nature, Properties, and Management of all their various Species, under the following Heads; 1. An useful, comprehensive, and entertaining Natural History of Pigeons. 2. Full and ample Directions for Building a Pigeon-House, or Dove-Cote. 3. Plain and necessary Instructions for stocking and managing the Pigeon-House, or Dove-Cote, with a particular Account of those Pigeons which are most advantageous for that Purpose; and an Abstract of the Laws now in Force relating to Pigeons. 4. Account of the best Methods now in Practice, for preventing Pigeons from leaving their Habitations. 5.   |a An accurate and just Description of all the valuable Species of Fancy Birds and Toys now bred in England, France, and Holland; their foul Marks pointed out, and their real Perfections clearly displayed, particularly Powters Carriers Horsemen Dragoons Croppers Powting Horsemen Uplopers Fantails Chinese Pigeon Lace ditto Tumblers Runts Spots Laughters Trumpeters Jacobines Capuchins Nuns Shakers Helmets Ruffs Finnikins Turners Barbs Mahomets Turbits Owls Smiters, &c. 6. Rules necessary to be observed in distinguishing the Sexes, particularly of young Pigeons. 7. Useful Particulars relative to coupling or matching of Pigeons. 8. A copious Account of the most elegible Methods of erecting; and furnishing a Loft for Pigeons. 9. Remarks and Observations on the Diet proper for Pigeons. 10. The Diseases Pigeons are liable to, with the best Remedies for each Distemper, as practised by the most experienced Fanciers. 11.   |h Elektronische Ressource 
246 3 1 |a New and complete pigeon fancyer 
260 |a London  |b printed for Alexander Hogg, No. 16, Pater-Noster-Row  |c 1790, [1790?] 
300 |a Online-Ressource (iv,13-140p.,plate)  |c 12° 
653 |a Pigeons / Early works to 1800 
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989 |b ECC  |a Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO 
500 |a Based on John Moore's 'Columbarium: or, the pigeon-house', first published in 1735. - Daniel Girton is possibly a pseudonym. - English Short Title Catalog, T162715. - Reissued ca.1790 as 'A treatise on domestic pigeons. .. '. - Reproduction of original from John Rylands University Library of Manchester 
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