Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit - A Guide for Those Who Wish to Prepare and Mount Animals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, Etc., for Home, Den or Office Decoration
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Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit - A Guide for Those Who Wish to Prepare and Mount Animals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, Etc., for Home, Den or Office Decoration

  1. 268 pages
  2. English
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Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit - A Guide for Those Who Wish to Prepare and Mount Animals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, Etc., for Home, Den or Office Decoration

About this book

This early work on taxidermy is a fascinating read for the amateur or professional taxidermist and also contains much information that is still useful today. Extensively illustrated with text and full page diagrams, drawings and photographs. Contents Include: History of the Art; Outfit-Tools and Materials; Preservative, Preparations, Formula, Etc; Panels, Shields and Natural and Artificial Mounds; Field Work, Collecting; Skinning and Preserving Skins; Making Scientific Skins; Preparing Dry and Wet Skins for Mounting; Mounting Small and Medium Birds; Mounting Large Birds; Tanning, Cleaning, and Poisoning Skins; Making Animal Fur Rugs; Fur Robes and How to Make Them; Mounting Entire Small Animals; Mounting Large Animals; Mounting heads of Small Animals, Birds and Fish; Mounting Heads of Large Game; Mounting Horns and Antlers; Mounting Feet and Hoofs; Mounting Fish; Mounting Fish-Baumgartel Method; Mounting Reptiles, Frogs and Toads; Skulls and Skeletons; Sportsmen's Trophies; Odds and Ends, Taxidermy Novelties; Groups and Grouping; Animal Anatomy; Casting and Modelling; market Trophy Hunting; Collecting and Mounting for Sale; and Prices for Work. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

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Yes, you can access Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit - A Guide for Those Who Wish to Prepare and Mount Animals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, Etc., for Home, Den or Office Decoration by Albert Farnham in PDF and/or ePUB format. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Pringle Press
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9781445518602, 9781445514376
eBook ISBN
9781447482277

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Contents
  4. List of Illustrations
  5. Introductory
  6. I. History of the Art
  7. II. Outfit—Tools and Materials
  8. III. Preservative Preparations, Formula, etc.
  9. IV. Panels, Shields and Natural, and Artificial Mounts
  10. V. Field Work, Collecting
  11. VI. Skinning and Preserving Skins
  12. VII. Making Scientific Skins
  13. VIII. Preparing Dry and Wet Skins for Mounting
  14. IX. Mounting Small and Medium Birds
  15. X. Mounting Large Birds
  16. XI. Tanning, Cleaning, and Poisoning Skins
  17. XII. Making Animal Fur Rugs
  18. XIII. Fur Robes and How to Make Them
  19. XIV. Mounting Entire Small Animals
  20. XV. Mounting Large Animals
  21. XVI. Mounting Heads of Small Animals, Birds and Fish
  22. XVII. Mounting Heads of Large Game
  23. XVIII. Mounting Horns and Antlers
  24. XIX. Mounting Feet and Hoofs
  25. XX. Mounting Fish
  26. XXI. Mounting Fish—Baumgartel Method
  27. XXII. Mounting Reptiles, Frogs and Toads
  28. XXIII. Skulls and Skeletons
  29. XXIV. Sportsmen’s Trophies
  30. XXV. Odds and Ends, Taxidermy Novelties
  31. XXVI. Groups and Grouping
  32. XXVII. Animal Anatomy
  33. XXVIII. Casting and Modelling
  34. XXIX. Market Trophy Hunting
  35. XXX. Collecting and Mounting for Sale
  36. XXXI. Prices for Work