1780 Raising & Training of Pet Animals. Dogs, Cats, Monkeys, Birds etc
Qui servent d'amusement a la homme
[Treatise on the education of animals which serve as amusement for man]
traitant de la manière d'élever, de nourrir, de soigner
le singe, le chien, le chat, l'écureuil, le perroquet,
le merle, l'étourneau, le serin de Canarie, le rossignol,
la linotte, le chardonnet et le bouvreuil
[dealing with how to raise, feed, care for the monkey, the dog, the cat, the squirrel, the parrot, the blackbird, the starling, the Canary canary, the nightingale, the linnet, the goldfinch and the bullfinch]
par
M*****
Paris: Lamy, 1780. First edition.
Hardcover. Brown leather covered boards with gilt spine decorations, missing title label, duodecimo (6.5 inches tall), red page edges, marbled endpapers, viij, 280 pages, wood engraved head- and tail- pieces.
In French
A scarce original edition on how to raise, feed, and care for monkeys, dogs, cats, squirrels, parrot, blackbird, starling, canary, nightingale, linnet, goldfinch and bullfinch.
The author of this 1780 original edition is not identified by name. A recent (21st Century) reprint of the book attributes its authorship to Pierre-Joseph Buc'hoz (See below). I do not know if this attribution is correct.
Pierre-Joseph Buc'hoz (27 January 1731, in Metz – 13 January 1807, in Paris) was a French physician, lawyer and naturalist.
Buc'hoz become a doctor of medicine in Nancy in 1763. He was devoted to botany, but was also interested in the treatment of melancholy and recommended music as therapy. He travelled throughout his native Lorraine and published a 13-volume Histoire naturelle of the province. Teaching botany as well, he was demonstrator at the Collège Royal des Médecins de Nancy. Author of many works of botany he also studied animals (in particular birds) and minerals.
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CONDITION:
The covers have light wear at edges and moderate wear at corners, heavy wear at bottom end of spine and horizontal split near top of spine, short split at top of spine joint, spine title label is missing and some of the gilding is rubbed, boards are rubbed, soiled and scuffed.
The contents are complete, intact and clean except that the title page and four following leaves have light semi-circular stain in the blank lower margin.
The binding is tight.
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