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Boelter, W.R. - The Rat Problem
London: John Bale, Sons, 1909, First Edition
Publisher\'s grey-green cloth with titles and vignette illustrations to boards in black
vii,[1],165,[1]pp. 6pp trade advertisements at rear.
Tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Sir James Chrichton-Browne - President of the Incorporated Society for the Destruction of Vermin.
With 75 b/w illustrations from photographs
VERY GOOD
Text and illustrations in excellent unmarked order throughout. a very good copy.
The one rat per person rule seems to come from a 1909 book entitled The Rat Problem by W.R. Boelter. In it he conducted a survey where he asked people in the English countryside whether it was reasonable to say that there was one rat per acre of land.
\"In the end he made an educated guess,\" says Sullivan. \"There were 40 million cultivated acres of land in England at the time so he concluded there were 40 million rats. It just happened that the population of the UK in 1909 was also about 40 million.\"
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London: John Bale, Sons, 1909, First Edition
Publisher\'s grey-green cloth with titles and vignette illustrations to boards in black
vii,[1],165,[1]pp. 6pp trade advertisements at rear.
Tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Sir James Chrichton-Browne - President of the Incorporated Society for the Destruction of Vermin.
With 75 b/w illustrations from photographs
VERY GOOD
Text and illustrations in excellent unmarked order throughout. a very good copy.
The one rat per person rule seems to come from a 1909 book entitled The Rat Problem by W.R. Boelter. In it he conducted a survey where he asked people in the English countryside whether it was reasonable to say that there was one rat per acre of land.
\"In the end he made an educated guess,\" says Sullivan. \"There were 40 million cultivated acres of land in England at the time so he concluded there were 40 million rats. It just happened that the population of the UK in 1909 was also about 40 million.\"
Kosten van verzending (Nederland: € 4,25; Europa: € 11,99) ten laste van koper