Columbarium: A Treatise on Domestic Pigeons: Pigeon Classics Book 1

Written in 1735 and reprinted in 1765, the original was properly titled "Columbarium: or, The pigeon-house.: Being an introduction to a natural history of tame pigeons. Giving an account of the several species known in England, with the method of breeding them, their distempers and cures" and is credited as having been the first pigeon book ever written in the English language. The original edition was privately printed by Moore two years before his death and is so rare that only six copies...