![Item #2769 [VETERINARY - PIGS]. Yoton Setsuryaku. Joseph Harris](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2769.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1567632971)
Tokyo: Yamatoya Kihee, Meiji 5 (1872). 2 vols. 8vo. Original wrappers, stitched as issued in the Japanese style (a little stained; early ownership stamps on first pages; light stains to upper margins and colophons). Complete copy in good condition. A remarkable Japanese abridged edition of Joseph Harris's "Harris on the..... More
![Item #4109 [VETERINARY BROADSIDE WARNING OF CATTLE PLAGUE]. Il Magistrato de’ Conservatori...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4109.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1707090452)
Turin, Italy: Stamperia Reale, 1744 (October 26). Huge letterpress broadside (1070 x 360 mm), printed on 2 1/2 folio sheets, edges untrimmed. A few sections underlined and annotated in a contemporary hand in the left blank margin (worn; paper extensions mainly in the right margin; prominent horizontal central fold, other..... More
![Item #3061 [ZOOLOGY: THE FIRST ANATOMICAL STUDY OF GIRAFFES]. Recherches historiques,...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3061.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1638305116)
Paris: Imprimerie veuve Berger-Levrault, 1845. First Edition. Large 4to (306 x 231 mm). 2 ff., 124 pp. With 17 plates lithographed by Delor after drawings by Joly. Bound in modern blue percaline cloth by Lobstein-Laurenchet, red morocco spine label gilt, original front cover wrapper preserved. Separate printing of the "Mémoires..... More
![Item #1363 [PHOTOBOOK]. Cranium Architecture. Irving Penn](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1363.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1553284344)
London: Hamiltons Gallery, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong folio. Altogether 69, [3] pp. including 27 superb photographic plates, each with captions on opposite page. Protected by mylar sleeve. The new catalogue raisonne of Penn's astonishing "Cranium" series of Animal skeletons, valuable for forensic research, to say nothing of the extraordinary..... More
![Item #4024 [DOGS - Early American Illustrations]. The Council of Dogs: illustrated with suitable...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4024.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1688424968)
Philadelphia: Published by Johnson & Warner, No. 147, Market-Street, Brown & Merritt, printers, 24, Church-alley), 1809 (i.e. 1821). Square 12mo. 16 pp. With 8 plates including frontispiece (dated 1821) which has been mounted inside front wrapper as per most copies (one plate loose; final page partially pasted onto the inside..... More
![Item #1082 [CATTLE DISEASES]. United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Animal Industry,...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1082.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1618172241)
Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1923. Hardcover. 8vo. 563, [1] pp. Profusely illustrated with 50 plates and 24 text figures. Original green cloth, blocked in black with illustration of a bull's head on front cover. ¶ Strange U.S. Government production illustrating -- with alarming realism -- the diseases of..... More
