1853 TAXIDERMIST'S MANUAL - NATURAL HISTORY, CONSERVATION, TAXIDERMY ELVES & GNOMES tight and like new condition

tight and like new condition save for previous owner's inscription on first blank page

Original black cloth with white titling

William Wynn Westcott (1848-1925) was an English Rosicrucian and Theosophist best known as a founder of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn

Wonderful and fascinating book of early and poetic religious hymns

1853 TAXIDERMIST'S MANUAL - NATURAL HISTORY, CONSERVATION, TAXIDERMY ELVES & GNOMES tight and like new conditionTHE TAXIDERMIST'S MANUAL Book Details + Condition: A. Fullarton and Co. (London), 1853. Hardcover measuring 7" x 4. 5". 150 pages. Illustrated manual on the techniques and tools of taxidermy, subtitled, "Or the art of collecting, preparing, and preserving objects of natural history. Designed for the use of travellers, conservators of museums, and private collectors." Written by British naturalist Captain Thomas Brown, a curator of the Manchester