Author : W. J. Miles Year of publication: 1890 Format: Hardback Signature: No First edition :Yes Condition: Fine Category: Agriculture Cost of book: £350.00 Price negotiable: Yes
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MILES, W. J., M.R.C.V.S.L. with treatises by John WALKER, Samuel P. PRESTON, Charles SCOTT, and J. L. LUPTON: 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., .London: William Mackenzie (Publishing), 69 Ludgate Hill, E.C., undated but looks the 1880 Edition with dates in the various chapters supporting this. ... "including practical treatises on Cattle, their Management in Dairy, Field, and Stall, Pasture Grasses, Silos, and Ensilage, and The Practice of Sheep Farming, With numerous coloured illusatrations as well as a Series of Anatomical Plates, also a Section on The Diseases & Treatment of Cattle, Sheep & Pigs". Hard cover, 12" x 10". 536pp. + vi + 96pp. + [iv]. Additional cold. printed t.p., 40 including 12 cold. Light marginal browning, a.e. marbled, rebound in half calf with marbled boards, gilt filleted raised bands with gilt lettering to spine. VG except some foxing to end papers. The illustrations are wonderful. Charts of horses' teeth at all ages, in colour, Sheep's Head with Small Pox, etc., etc. Rare in this condition, £350.00
