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The first booke of Cattell: wherein is shewed the gouernment of oxen, kine, calues, and how to vse bulles and other cattell to the yoake, and fell. With diuers approued remedies, to helpe most diseases among cattell: most necessarie for all, especially for husband men, hauing the gouernment of any such cattell

MASCALL Leonard -1589

  • Publisher: John Wolfe
  • Published: 1587 , London
  • Condition: Very Good
London: John Wolfe, 1587. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Historically important in the development of Husbandry & Veterinary practices in early modern England! The rare first edition in contemporary calf, blind tooling to border. Sympathetically rebacked, raised bands, gilt title to calf label. Internally, [6], 1-92, [4], 99-195, [8], 204-285 pp but 301, [2] table, odd pagination but complete, pagination: [1], A3-N4, O-V4, Aa-Gg4, lacks initial blank & 2ff, following 2D5 (cancels), woodcut device to first title, titles of second & third parts within woodcut architectural borders, woodcut initials & head pieces, crease to fep & ep, book label fpd (Niall Kenny). ESTC list 1 copy in the UK & 3 in the US only. (179*129 mm). (ESTC S112382. Fussell1-p9. Huth - Works on Horses & Equitation p12). 'The second booke intreating of the gouernment of horses' (O1r) and 'The third booke intreating of the ordering of sheep and goatees [sic], hogs and dogs' (2A1r) each have separate dated title page; register and pagination are continuous. One of the most widely read English livestock manuals of the 16th century, which shows the transition from medieval farming knowledge to more systematic early modern agriculture . Frequently cited by historians of farming, veterinary medicine, and rural life in Tudor England.

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