The Modern Veterinary Adviser An Authoritative and Popular Guide to the Attainment and Preservation of Health, The Cure of Disease, and the Treatment of Ailments and Accidents in The Horse With Sections Dealing With Dogs, Cows, Sheep, Poultry, Pigs, Cage Birds, Etc.

A very scarce complete five volume set of illustrated veterinary guides from the early twentieth century. A lovely five volume set of early twentieth century works on modern veterinary.Complete in five volumes, this set is a guide to the care of primarily horses, with sections on dogs, cows, sheep, poultry, pigs, cage birds, and more as well.The set is abundantly illustrated, with each volume including a frontispiece and in text illustrations throughout.Volume I also includes 4 coloured plates, 16 monochrome plates. Volume II includes 15 monochrome plates. Volume III 3 coloured plates and 15 monochrome plates, 14 of which are double sided.Volume IV includes 4 coloured plates, and 16 monochrome plates, with the plate depicting Champion Shorthorn "Meteor" and Shorthorn Cow, "Donside Princess" disbound but present, loosely inserted into the volume.Volume V includes 1 coloured plate, and 20 monochrome plates.All volumes collated, complete.Edited by Professor Gerald Leighton, a British physician, zoologist and specialist inreptiles.In publisher's original decorative green cloth bindings. In publisher's original cloth bindings. Externally, smart. Bumping to the heads and tails of the spines. Odd faint mark to boards. Light offsetting and spotting to endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with light spotting to the front and rear of the work. Very Good.…