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MONTO Y ROCO, Salvador. Sanidad del cavallo, y otros animales sujetos al arte de albeyteria. [Valencia: J.E. Dolz, 1742].
4 (199 x 145mm). Title within a typographical border, 18 full-page woodcut illustrations of horseshoes and hoofs. (Lower portion of title torn away with considerable loss of text and imprint, lacks the engraved plate.) Contemporary limp vellum, 3 (of 4) ties still remaining. Provenance: Inscription on an endpaper 'Donn a M. Wiborg le 15 novembre 1789. Par M. Huzard, a Paris'.
Only edition of this important Spanish veterinary book, appropriately owned by Jean-Baptiste Huzard (1755-1838) who, apart from all his other achievements, was chosen to be the editor of the veterinary section in the Encyclopdie mthodique. By the time of his death in 1838 he had created a library of more than forty thousand volumes, many of them of great rarity and value. Palau 179304; Huth p.33.
4 (199 x 145mm). Title within a typographical border, 18 full-page woodcut illustrations of horseshoes and hoofs. (Lower portion of title torn away with considerable loss of text and imprint, lacks the engraved plate.) Contemporary limp vellum, 3 (of 4) ties still remaining. Provenance: Inscription on an endpaper 'Donn a M. Wiborg le 15 novembre 1789. Par M. Huzard, a Paris'.
Only edition of this important Spanish veterinary book, appropriately owned by Jean-Baptiste Huzard (1755-1838) who, apart from all his other achievements, was chosen to be the editor of the veterinary section in the Encyclopdie mthodique. By the time of his death in 1838 he had created a library of more than forty thousand volumes, many of them of great rarity and value. Palau 179304; Huth p.33.