A Treatise On Cattle: Showing The Most Approved Methods Of Breeding, Rearing, and Fitting for Use, Asses, Mules, Horned Cattle, Sheep, Goats, and Swine. With Directions For The Proper Treatment Of Them In Their Several Disorders: To which is added, A Dissertation on their Contagious Diseases. Caerfully collected from the best Authorities, and interspersed with Remarks
by Mills, John
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- first
- Condition
- Good +
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Hanover, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
Boston: William Spotswood, 1795. First American Edition. Full calf. Good +. 12º, 16.5 cm.; 215pp.; old reback, corners worn, slight loss (moused?) to tail of front board; 7 compartments with title in gilt on red leather label.; Advert. on verso of title for Mills book on Farriery.
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- Bookseller
- J. A. Lascelles & Sons (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 68
- Title
- A Treatise On Cattle: Showing The Most Approved Methods Of Breeding, Rearing, and Fitting for Use, Asses, Mules, Horned Cattle, Sheep, Goats, and Swine. With Directions For The Proper Treatment Of Them In Their Several Disorders: To which is added, A Dissertation on their Contagious Diseases. Caerfully collected from the best Authorities, and interspersed with Remarks
- Author
- Mills, John
- Format/Binding
- Full calf
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- William Spotswood
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1795
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...