Partridge Disease Causes Edited Major by Portal Collinge Editors (3 results)

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1932). 1932 1st edition. 4to (190 x 251mm). Ppx,96. Colour frontispiece, b/w photographs and illustrations. Tan cloth, upper board and spine titled in brown. Inner hinge cracked, cloth quite faded, browning and owner's name to end-papers. Good only. Lacks dust-wrapper. "Including the Report and Suggestions of the Country Life Committee of Enquiry into the Diseases of Partridges during the season 1931-1932." "Major Portal, Dr. Colling and the Committe, with the generous co-operation of owners of shootings all over England, have produced a most illuminating report, which, while exploding many cherished beliefs, establishes facts the knowledge of which is of vital value and practical importance, and points the way to the control of the scourge. .But the book is not limited to the Report alone; there are valuable chapters on Hand-rearing and the Euston system by M.F. Whelan, on Penned Partridges; on the French System; on Stock and Inbreeding; on Penned Hungarians and Hungarians in America; on Winter Feeding; and the effect on the Partridge of modern methods of Agriculture." .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1932). 1932 1st edition. 4to (190 x 251mm). Ppx,96. Colour frontispiece, b/w photographs and illustrations. Tan cloth, upper board and spine titled in brown. Slight browning but good-plus. Lacks dust-wrapper. "Including the Report and Suggestions of the Country Life Committee of Enquiry into the Diseases of Partridges during the season 1931-1932." "Major Portal, Dr. Colling and the Committe, with the generous co-operation of owners of shootings all over England, have produced a most illuminating report, which, while exploding many cherished beliefs, establishes facts the knowledge of which is of vital value and practical importance, and points the way to the control of the scourge. .But the book is not limited to the Report alone; there are valuable chapters on Hand-rearing and the Euston system by M.F. Whelan, on Penned Partridges; on the French System; on Stock and Inbreeding; on Penned Hungarians and Hungarians in America; on Winter Feeding; and the effect on the Partridge of modern methods of Agriculture." .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1932). 1932 1st edition. 4to (190 x 251mm). Ppx,96. Colour frontispiece, b/w photographs and illustrations. Tan cloth, upper board and spine titled in brown. Spotting to edges, slight browning to end-papers but good-plus in chipped but presentable dust-wrapper. Signed, in pencil, on the front end-paper "from Maurice Portal, September 19, 1937." "Including the Report and Suggestions of the Country Life Committee of Enquiry into the Diseases of Partridges during the season 1931-1932." "Major Portal, Dr. Colling and the Committe, with the generous co-operation of owners of shootings all over England, have produced a most illuminating report, which, while exploding many cherished beliefs, establishes facts the knowledge of which is of vital value and practical importance, and points the way to the control of the scourge. .But the book is not limited to the Report alone; there are valuable chapters on Hand-rearing and the Euston system by M.F. Whelan, on Penned Partridges; on the French System; on Stock and Inbreeding; on Penned Hungarians and Hungarians in America; on Winter Feeding; and the effect on the Partridge of modern methods of Agriculture." .