The Improved Practical System of Educating the Horse, by Rockwell & Hurlburt ...
New York, Fisher & Field, Printers, 1871.
Duodecimo, 16, xii (appendix), [17]-203 pages with a few in-text illustrations and 30 full-page engravings.
Later half morocco and cloth (by C. Walters) retaining the original purple pictorial wrappers (slightly marked and chipped); glue from the bookplate of Harry Twyford Peters on the front pastedown has discoloured the bookplate and the flyleaf; an excellent copy.
The balance of the lengthy title continues: 'With a history of the famous horses "Tiger", "Star", and "Mazeppa". Also a short treatise on shoeing. Together with an account of diseases and their treatment with new and valuable recipes. Also a statement of their method of training cattle and dogs, together with the rules of Union Course'.
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