384 FANCY PIGEONS. 



English Books. 



"Columbarium; or, The Pigeon House: being an In- 

 troduction TO A Natural History of Tame Pigeons. 

 By John Moore. London : Printed for J. Wilf ord, behind the 

 Chapter House in St. Paul's Churchyard, MDCCXXXY." 



"Moore's Columbarium. Reprinted Verbatim et Literatim 

 from the Original Edition of 1735, with a Brief Notice of the 

 Author by W. B. Tegetmeier, F.Z.S. London: The Field 

 Office, 346, Strand, W.C., 1879." 



For many years the only known copy of the " Columbarium " 

 among pigeon fanciers was that in the possession of Mr. F. C. 

 Esquilant, from which Mr. Tegetmeier made his reprint, in 

 1879 ; but soon afterwards a copy turned up in London, at one 

 of Puttick & Simpson's sales, which passed into my possession 

 on 5th November, 1879. J. M. Eaton, the writer on pigeons, 

 possessed a copy in 1852, which, there is no doubt, was de- 

 stroyed. The book is extremely rare. My copy measures 

 7fin. by 4fin., and is printed (from the signatures) in quarto. 

 The title-page, dedication, and preface, occupy seven leaves 

 (i.-xiv.), and the body of the book thirty leaves, paged 1-60. 

 There are four copies in the British Museum, according to 

 Mr. Tegetmeier, one of which is paged up to 80, the additional 

 matter being headed — 



An Account of some medecines prepar'd by JOHN MOOEE, Apothe- 

 cary at the Pestle and Mortar, in Lawrence Pountney's Lane, the 

 first great Gates on the left Hand from Cannon Street ; who formerly 

 lived at the Pestle & Mortar in Abchurch Lane, London, with a faith- 

 ful Narrative of some cures effected by them. 



Eaton's copy had these twenty extra pages, to which he 

 refers in his Treatises on Pigeons (1852 and 1858). 



Moore was proprietor of a worm powder, and seems, from 

 the references to him in contemporary literature, to have been 

 well known. The Rev. Alex. Headley, rector of Hardenhuish, 

 "Wilts, who writes on pigeons under the nom de pkime, " Wilt- 

 shire Rector," first called attention to Pope's lines entitled — 



