![Item #3527 [HORSES]. The History and Art of Horsemanship. Richard Berenger](/pictures/thumb/3527.jpg?v=1624378923)
London: For T. Davies and T. Cadell, 1771. 2 vols. in one, 4to. vii, [1], 319, [4]; [4], 246, [2] pp. COMPLETE with 2 frontispieces and 15 plates (numbered 1-9 and 1-6), several engraved ornaments in the text, some dust-soiling or light browning; occasional staining (not objectionable). Contemporary calf, rebacked..... More
![Item #3798 [SMALL ARCHIVE RELATED TO AMERICAN BEEKEEPING 1846-1950, Apiaries, Recipes, etc.]....](/pictures/thumb/3798.JPG?v=1661872263)
1846-1940. A quantity of thirteen (13) items relating to beekeeping in America between c.1846 and c.1940, showing both the widespread enthusiasm for the cottage industry and its rapid economic growth. Trade catalogues, correspondence, and informational booklets are included. Includes illustrated trade catalogs by Charles Dadant (1817-1902), an influential French-American beekeeper..... More
![Item #3035 [DOGS - 1796]. The Parliamentary Register: Or, History of the Proceedings and Debates...](/pictures/thumb/3035.jpg?v=1600272785)
London: J. Debrett, 1796. First Edition. 8vo. [10], 839 pp. Bound in contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards (leather very dry, front cover nearly detached but cords holding). Bookplate of the Fraser Institute, which sold more than 5000 books to Livresse (Gatineau, Quebec), from whom we purchased the present volume..... More
![Item #2769 [VETERINARY - PIGS]. Yoton Setsuryaku. Joseph Harris](/pictures/thumb/2769.JPG?v=1567632993)
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 #3061 [GIRAFFES - FIRST ANATOMICAL STUDY]. Recherches historiques, zoologiques, anatomiques...](/pictures/thumb/3061.jpg?v=1638305118)
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](/pictures/thumb/1363.jpg?v=1553284503)
London: Hamiltons Gallery, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong folio. Altogether 69, [3] pp. including 27 superb photographic plates, each with captions on opposite page. The new catalogue raisonne of Penn's astonishing "Cranium" series of Animal skeletons, valuable for forensic research, to say nothing of the extraordinary photographic celebration of each..... More
![Item #1082 [CATTLE DISEASES]. United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Animal Industry,...](/pictures/thumb/1082.jpg?v=1618172282)
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
