[Rarebooks] FS: 1881 Ostrich Farm in South Africa Memoir

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

“Ostrich Farming in South Africa”

By Arthur Douglass.
Published in London by Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co. in 1881.

"An account of its origin and rise, how to set about it, the profits to 
be derived, how to manage the birds, the capital required, the diseases 
and difficulties to be met with, etc." The author was an ostrich farmer, 
owner of the Heatherton Towers farm in Grahamstown, South Africa, and 
patentor of several ostrich egg incubators. He recounts many interesting 
first-hand anecdotes, and encourages others to follow- "As a literary 
production, written at broken intervals in the midst of a busy life, 
[this book]is necessarily far from perfect. As the first work of its 
kind ever published, it is no doubt far from exhaustive, but such as it 
is, we present it to our fellow colonists, intending emigrants, and 
others, as an honest attempt to help others on the road we have 
travelled ourselves, and to forward the bests interests of the Colony of 
our adoption and affection".

Hardcover. 5"x7.25", viii + 251 pages, plus a folding colored map, 1 
folding plate, and 3 double-page and 6 single-page black & white plates. 
Rebound in full modern green leather with raised bands and gilt spine 
lettering. Covers fine, contents with some minor spots, a few marginal 
stains.  $60-

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