The country-man's companion, or, A new method of ordering horses & sheep so as to preserve them both from diseases and causalties, or, to recover them if fallen ill : and also to render them much more serviceable and useful to their owners, than has yet been discovered, known or practised : and particularly to preserve sheep from that monsterous, mortifying distemper, the rot /
Niall Kenny description: Rare; HL catalogue the book as printed in 1688 (date comes from Wing) but now thought to be wrong.
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| Language: | English |
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Printed and sold by Andrew Sowle, at the Crooked-Billet in Holloway-Court in Holloway-Lane, near Shoreditch,
[1684?]
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| Summary: | Niall Kenny description: Rare; HL catalogue the book as printed in 1688 (date comes from Wing) but now thought to be wrong. |
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| Item Description: | Date suggested by Wing. Publisher's advertisements on last 3 unnumbered pages. "Of the evils that attend an idle and soft life, and the excellency of moderate labour and exercise," pages 85-99; "The planters speech to his neighbours ... in Pennsylvania ... and to all such as have transported themselves into new-colonies for the sake of a quiet life," pages 100-141; "The complaints of the birds ... to their Creator, for the oppressions and violences most nations ... do offer unto them," pages 141-173; "Advertisement" of the author's "The way to health," pages [174-176]. Signatures: A⁴ B-M⁸ |
| Physical Description: | 4 unnumbered pages, 173 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 16 cm |