THE AMERICAN POULTRY YARD; COMPRISING THE ORIGIN, HISTORY, AND DESCRIPTION OF THE DIFFERENT BREEDS OF DOMESTIC POULTRY; WITH COMPLETE DIRECTIONS FOR THEIR BREEDING, CROSSING, REARING, FATTENING, AND PREPARATION FOR MARKET; INCLUDING SPECIFIC DIRECTIONS FOR CAPONISING FOWLS, AND FOR THE TREATMENT OF THE PRINCIPAL DISEASES TO WHICH THEY ARE SUBJECT; DRAWN FRON AUTHENTIC SOURCES AND PERSONAL OBSERVATION.
Book Details + Condition: C.M. Saxton, Barker and Co. (New York). Early Edition, 1860. Hardcover with embossed brown boards, and gilt decoration to front and spine. 318 pages with Index. Illustrated. Scarce 19th-century comprehensive work on poultry farming and domestication, organized and described by type of fowl.
Firm binding; rubbed corners and edges; wear to boards; fading to edges and spine; chafed spine ends; slight lean to book; foxing to endpapers, with occasional foxing and age-spotting throughout interior (some areas heavier than others), which is otherwise free of markings.
