Sunday, March 9, 2014

1880 HORSEMAN'S GUIDE AND FARRIER: A NEW AND IMPROVED SYSTEM OF HANDLING AND EDUCATING THE HORSE

1880

THE HORSEMAN'S GUIDE AND FARRIER:
A NEW AND IMPROVED SYSTEM OF HANDLING AND EDUCATING THE HORSE,
TOGETHER WITH DISEASES AND THEIR TREATMENT

BY S. V. R. YORK

ALSO, A TREATISE ON SHOEING; EDUCATING CATTLE AND DOGS:
WITH HINTS ON STABLE MANAGEMENT

*** RARE ANTIQUE EDITION ~ STUNNING VICTORIAN FINE BINDING ~ ILLUSTRATED ~ CLASSIC ~ SECTIONS ON HORSE TRAINING ~ VETERINARY HOME MEDICINE RECIPES ~ HORSE BREEDS ~ BETTING AND GAMBLING RULES ~ GROOMING ~ BRIDLES, HARNESSES, SADDLES, HORSESHOES ~ NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROMOTION OF THE INTERESTS OF THE AMERICAN TROTTING TURF RULES AND REGULATIONS ***

Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co., 1880.

• measures about 7.5'' x 5.5''
• beautiful decorative red pebbled cloth Victorian fine binding
• ornate embossed gold gilt stamping including two different full-cover landscape-oriented vignettes
• brown coated endpapers
• illustrated with numerous full-page plates of engravings - plates are out of numerical order, as issued, and some numbers are not accounted for - it does not appear that any plates were removed
• 294 pages





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