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, &c., &c. 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 . by Benjamin Herring. To Which is Added an Essay on the Diseases and Management of Cattle, Sheep and Pigs by J.I. Lupton.

W. J. Miles

Published by William Mackenzie, London, Glasgow & Edinburgh, 1885

About this Item

Undated 1885 as last winner recorded in 1884. 4to, iv+vii+pp536+pp94 seems to be missing very last page complete with 40 plates 14 of which are chromolithographic plates (including frontis and title page). Hardcover no dust jacket. Handsomely rebound in half black morocco over black buckram with gilt titles to spine and decorative tooled gilt to spine and boards in very good condition with a few small bumps to top edge and a few very small marks. Inside foxing throughout and a little aging to pages. This copy for some reason comes with another set of separate plates 9 coloured and 25 b/w taken from a different edition? a lovely rebind with spare plates. This is a heavy book and may cost more postage for overseas. Seller Inventory # 001181

Bibliographic Details

Title: MODERN PRACTICAL FARRIERY A Complete Guide ...

Publisher: William Mackenzie, London, Glasgow & Edinburgh

Publication Date: 1885

Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: Benjamin Herring

Condition: Good

Edition: 1st Edition