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Treatise on the breeding and management of live stock
comprising cattle, sheep, horses, asses, mules, pigs, deer, goats, rabbits, poultry, bees, fish, &c. &c. &c. In which the principals and proceedings of the new school of breeders are fully and experimently discussed. To which are added directions for making butter and cheese, curing hams, pickling pork and tongues, preserving eggs, &c. &c. With an appendix, containing tables of prices in the live and dead markets, with some extraordinary sales of cattle and sheep, and other particulars. The whole interspersed with various information of importance to breeders, graziers, farmers, and the public at large. In two volumes. ... Elucidated by eight copper-plates, and several engravings on wood
2 volumes (8 unnumbered pages, xxxii, 436 pages, 3 unnumbered leaves of plates; 8 unnumbered pages, 484 pages, 16 unnumbered pages, 5 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations ; 22 cm
Niall Kenny description: Extremely scarce; not in RCVS; not recorded in NUC. Pagination error: Vol. II page 108 as '105' Printer's imprint: "Printed by T. Davison, Lombard-street, Whitefriars, London."
by Richard Parkinson, author of "The experience farmer," "The English farmer in Ireland," "A tour in America," &c. &c.
Includes index (final [16] pages of volume 2).
Copy 2 Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions (purchased by TMV, RASE collection sale, July 11, 2014, lot 224); Royal Agricultural Society of England (bookplate). TMV