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HORSES AND CATTLE -- LAMBERT, James. The Countryman's Treasure: shewing the nature, causes and cure of all diseases incident to cattle. London: J and B. Sprint, [1710]. 12° (141 x 83mm). Woodcut frontispiece of bull, cow and boar, 2 final contents leaves. (One neat marginal tear, light spotting and browning.) 19th-century half-sheep (rubbed at extremities). Provenance: Francis Maltby Bland (armorial bookplate). 'Fourth' [but fifth?] edition of a work first published in 1676.
GIBSON, William (1680-1750). The Farriers Dispensatory. London: for W. Taylor, 1721. 8° (195 x 115mm). (Occasional light spotting, last leaf slightly defective at inner margin.) Contemporary sprinkled calf, panels of spine and sides ruled in gilt (lightly rubbed). Provenance: Thomas Ferrers (18th-century ownership inscription on title and armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Huth p.29.
BURDON, William. The Gentleman's Pocket-Farrier; shewing how to use your Horse on a Journey. London: for the author, 1730. 12° (166 x 99mm). Contemporary panelled calf (lightly rubbed, small defect at foot of spine). FIRST EDITION of this popular pocket book. Huth p.30; and 15 others including: John Wood, A New Compendious Treatise of Farriery (1762); John Blunt, Practical Farriery (1773); Paulet St. John, Every Man his own Farrier (Winton, 1780). (18)
GIBSON, William (1680-1750). The Farriers Dispensatory. London: for W. Taylor, 1721. 8° (195 x 115mm). (Occasional light spotting, last leaf slightly defective at inner margin.) Contemporary sprinkled calf, panels of spine and sides ruled in gilt (lightly rubbed). Provenance: Thomas Ferrers (18th-century ownership inscription on title and armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Huth p.29.
BURDON, William. The Gentleman's Pocket-Farrier; shewing how to use your Horse on a Journey. London: for the author, 1730. 12° (166 x 99mm). Contemporary panelled calf (lightly rubbed, small defect at foot of spine). FIRST EDITION of this popular pocket book. Huth p.30; and 15 others including: John Wood, A New Compendious Treatise of Farriery (1762); John Blunt, Practical Farriery (1773); Paulet St. John, Every Man his own Farrier (Winton, 1780). (18)
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