Modern practical Farriery: A complete Guide to all that relates to the Horse, its History, Varieties, and Uses Breaking, Training, Feeding, Stabling, and Grooming how to buy, keep, and treat a Horse in Health and Disease, etc., etc., forming a complete System of the veterinary Art, as at Present practised at the Royal Veterinary College, London … with numerous Illustrations and a Series of anatomical Plates, engraved from original Drawings from Nature … to which is added an Essay on the Diseases and Management of Cattle, Sheep, and Pigs.

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4to, pp. 536, vii, [1], iv, 96, with chromolithographic title, coloured frontispiece with tissue guard, and 38 plates (of which 13 coloured); slight spotting to title, frontispiece and guard worn at fore-edge; a very good copy in publisher's red cloth over bevelled boards, blocked in black and gilt and lettered in gilt, speckled edges, yellow endpapers; a little rubbed with abrasion to lower board, corners slightly bumped with minimal losses, end-caps chipped.Miles's comprehensive and generously illustrated treatise on veterinary science. The text first appeared in sixteen monthly parts, issued between 1868 and 1869, before being published in several undated editions in quick succession, accompanied by plates by the sporting artist Benjamin Herring (1830 1871). Cf. Dingley 457; not in Mellon. Language: English.

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Modern practical Farriery: A complete Guide to all that relates to the Horse, its History, Varieties, and Uses Breaking, Training, Feeding, Stabling, and Grooming how to buy, keep, and treat a Horse in Health and Disease, etc., etc., forming a complete System of the veterinary Art, as at Present practised at the Royal Veterinary College, London … with numerous Illustrations and a Series of anatomical Plates, engraved from original Drawings from Nature … to which is added an Essay on the ...

Verlag

London, Glasgow, and Edinburgh, William MacKenzie, [c. 1870].

Erscheinungsjahr

1870

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Hardcover

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