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200098283Montréal, Stanké 2000 In-12 reliure à spirales, sous couverture plastifiée. 93 pages+table des recettes. Couverture un peu gauchie. Bon état d’occasion.
2000104985Les Presses Agronomiques Gembloux 2000 In-8 broché 23,5 cm sur 17. 54 pages. Très bon état d’occasion.
1907MXG514-1South Pasadena: Cawston Ostrich Farm 1907. Loose Leaf. Very Good. No Date but circa 1907. Trade Card. 5 3/8 x 3 1/4 inches. Heavy card stock printed on both sides; recto with a black-and-white half-tone illustration of a man Edwin Cawston riding an ostrich while wearing a suit and a bowler hat the verso with a decorative initial and a description of the Farm; small abrasion on the illustration minor corners a bit worn. SCARCE. Very Good. Scarce early trade card for Cawston Ostrich Farm and the salesroom of "the new industry the manufacture of Ostrich Feathers at South Pasadena Ostrich Farm." The Cawston Ostrich Farm located on nine acres in the Arroyo Seco in South Pasadena was opened in 1886 the first Ostrich Farm in the United States. In 1885 Edwin Cawston shipped 50 birds from South Africa to Galveston Texas and then put the birds on a train to Southern California. Despite a mortality rate of 64 percent the population of ostriches at the farm reached over 1000 before the farm closed in 1935. Cawston Ostrich Farm became a premier tourist attraction for many years due to its proximity to the Pacific Electric trolley line that passed through downtown Los Angeles and stopped in South Pasadena at Main Street. Guests rode on the backs of ostriches rode in ostrich-drawn carriages and purchased ostrich-feathered hats boas capes and fans at the store and factory located on the property. Cawston Ostrich Farm feather products were shipped and sold throughout the world. Most of the original brick structure of the factory and store remain today as South Pasadena Cultural Landmark No. 18. Cawston Ostrich Farm unknown books
191059092Milwaukee:: Ostrich Plume Company no date ca. 1910-1920. First edition. original embossed and string-tied wrappers. Near fine. 8vo. Lavishly illustrated throughout from photographs some color. Laid in is a two page form letter further praising genuine ostrich plumes "the crowning glory of nature's efforts for the adornment of the fair sex." Ostrich Plume Company, unknown