PRACTICAL TAXIDERMY
Written by Montague Browne
Published by Read Country Books
in 2005
ISBN: 1905124325
- Categorised in:
- NATURAL HISTORY
- NATURAL HISTORY GENERAL
- TAXIDERMY
PRACTICAL TAXIDERMY
Written by Montague Browne.
Stock no. 1330185
2005.
Hardback.
Fine condition.
Appears to be a physical print on demand book (printed by Lightning Source), originally published in 1884. Brown glazed pictorial boards. 354 pages. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 1905124325.
Front cover
Contents
- Chapter I. The Rise and Progress of Taxidermy
- Chapter II. Decoying and Trapping Animals
- Chapter III. Necessary Tools
- Chapter IV. Preservative Soaps, Powders, ETC.
- Chapter V. Skinning and Preserving Birds
- Chapter VI. Skinning and Preserving Mammals
- Chapter VII. Modelling of animals by Substitution of Clay, Composition, Plaster Casts, or Wax for Loose Stuffing
- Chapter VIII. Skinning, Preserving, and Mounting Fish, and Casting Fishes, in Plaster, ETC.
- Chapter IX. Skinning, Preserving, and Mounting Reptiles
- Chapter X. Dressing and Softening Skins or Furs as Leather
- Chapter XI. Relaxing and Cleaning Skins - "Making-Up" From Pieces
- Chapter XII. Colouring Bills and Feet of Birds, Bare Skin of Mammals, Fishes, ETC
- Chapter XIII. Cases, Mounts, Shields, Egg Cabinets, Rockwork, Ferns, Grasses, Sea-Weeds, ETC, For "Fitting -up"
- Chapter XIV. General Remarks on Artistic "Mounting," Modelled Foliage Screens Lamps, Natural History Jewellery, ETC.
- Chapter XV. Collecting and Preserving Insects
- Chapter XVI. On Natural History Museums, with Special Reference to a New System of Pictorial Arrangement of Vertebrates