Late nineteenth century, illustrating guide to rearing and preserving game birds and ground game including pheasants, grouse and hares:

Practical Game Preserving containing the Fullest Directions for Rearing and Preserving Both winged and Ground Game and Destroying Vermin.  With other Information of Value to the Game Preserver.

by William Carnegie

Published by L. Upcott Gill. Preface dated 1884.

Contents:

Part I: Winged Game: Pheasants: Natural History; Breeding and Rearing; Maintenance and Increase of Stock; Rearing by Hand; Diseases; Coverts; Protection; General Management; Partridges: Natural History; Breeding and Rearing; Protection;The Red Grouse: Natural history; Introduction and Maintenance of a Stock; Hand-rearing; Diseases; Protection; The Black Grouse: Natural History; Preserving; The Ptarmigan and Capercailzie; The Quail, Landrail, Bustard, Snipe and Woodcock.

Part II: Ground Game: The Hare; Wild Rabbit; Silver-Grey Rabbit; Ferrets.

Part III: Vermin: Polecat; Stoat; Weasel; Pine Marten; Wild Cats; Capture of Stoats, Polecats Weasels and Cats; The Otter; The Badger; The Fox Considered as Vermin; rats; Ground Vermin; Winged Vermin.

Part IV: Miscellanea: Poachers and Poaching; Fox preservation and the Formation of Fox Covert; Sending Game to Market;

Hardbacks, 570 pages, 15.5 cm by 22.5 cm.

Good condition

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