Author: DOUGLASS, Arthur.
Title: Ostrich Farming in South Africa. Being an account of its origin and rise; how to set about it; the profits .. how to manage the birds .. diseases and difficulties ..
Description: London, Cassell & Silver & Co. [1881]. Octavo, excellent in publisher's blindstamped cloth; viii,251pp & publisher's list, folding map & eight wood engraved plates (four double page). Occasional light spots or browning but a fresh, unused copy. ¶ The bible for the industry, by the man who claims to be the first professional ostrich farmer - at this time 14 years in the business and quite famous, Trollope came to see him during his South African sojourn. Douglass does allow that others may legitimately challenge his precedence but he did patent the first incubator for ostrich eggs, which spurred the industry, and he is sanguine that ostrich feathers will never go out of fashion, chiefly because they form an integral part of court dress. One of the plates (from photographs taken a few years earlier and published in the ‘Illustrated London News' in 1878) is a view of Heatherton Towers, his farm. And indeed Heatherton Towers is flanked by two hulking turreted towers which stretch up at least one and a half storeys above the landscape.
Keywords: agriculture economics natural history birds ostriches c19th Africa travel trades technology
Title: Ostrich Farming in South Africa. Being an account of its origin and rise; how to set about it; the profits .. how to manage the birds .. diseases and difficulties ..
Description: London, Cassell & Silver & Co. [1881]. Octavo, excellent in publisher's blindstamped cloth; viii,251pp & publisher's list, folding map & eight wood engraved plates (four double page). Occasional light spots or browning but a fresh, unused copy. ¶ The bible for the industry, by the man who claims to be the first professional ostrich farmer - at this time 14 years in the business and quite famous, Trollope came to see him during his South African sojourn. Douglass does allow that others may legitimately challenge his precedence but he did patent the first incubator for ostrich eggs, which spurred the industry, and he is sanguine that ostrich feathers will never go out of fashion, chiefly because they form an integral part of court dress. One of the plates (from photographs taken a few years earlier and published in the ‘Illustrated London News' in 1878) is a view of Heatherton Towers, his farm. And indeed Heatherton Towers is flanked by two hulking turreted towers which stretch up at least one and a half storeys above the landscape.
Keywords: agriculture economics natural history birds ostriches c19th Africa travel trades technology
Price: AUD 150.00 = appr. US$ 103.78 Seller: Richard Neylon, Bookseller
- Book number: 7992
- Book number: 7992