Pasta for Nightingales A 17th Century Handbook of Bird-Care and Folklore by Hele

Pasta for Nightingales A 17th Century Handbook of Bird-Care and Folklore by Helen Macdonald. Published by Yale in 2020. Hardcover. The first-ever English translation of a seventeenth-century ornithology text, complete with historic watercolor illustrations This beautifully illustrated book brings together the newly commissioned, first-ever English translation of one of the earliest studies in ornithology with the original watercolors, now part of the British Royal Collection, that provided the inspiration for its engraved illustrations. The watercolors, created for the Paper Museum of the seventeenth-century scholar and art col.