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Title Elephant slaves and pampered parrots : exotic animals in eighteenth-century Paris / Louise E. Robbins.
Author Robbins, Louise E., author.
Publisher Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2002]
Copyright ©2002

Status Loan Type Location Shelf-mark
 In Library  Standard  Library Level 5  Zoology Z60 2002-R2  
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Description xiv, 349 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
ISBN 9780801867538
0801867533 hardcover : alkaline paper
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-336).
Contents Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations ix -- Preface xi -- Introduction i -- 1 Live Cargo 9 -- 2 The Royal Menagerie 37 -- 3 Fair andFihts 68 -- 4 The Oiseleurs' Guild oo -- 5 PamperedParrots 122 -- 6 Animals in Print 156 -- 7 Elephant Slaves 86 -- 8 Vie la Liberte 206 -- Epilogue 231.
Series Animals, history, culture.
Library Class Zoology Z60
Subject Wild animals as pets -- France -- Paris -- History -- 18th century.
Human-animal relationships -- France -- Paris -- History -- 18th century.
Exotic animals -- France -- Paris -- History -- 18th century.
Spine Title Elephant slaves & pampered parrots

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