RUSS, KARL.

Die främdländischen Stubenvögel, ihre Naturgeschichte, Pflege und Zucht. 4 Bde.

Magdeburg, 1879-88. Lex8vo. 4 solid cont. hcalf, gilt backs. With 36 fine chromolithographed plates (numb. I-XXXV, 1 unnumb., all). Faint brownspottings on some plates.

Anker No 436. Nissen 803. From 1875 to 1879 the number of birds imported for the market of cage-birds as pets increased from 250 species to ab. 700. These 4 volumes on exotic cage-birds and their maintenance in captivity were the life-work of the author. It is probably the standard work on the subject(Wood).

Order-nr.: 11215