N.p. No stated publisher, n.d. [ca. 1900?]. No stated edition. Unbound sheet. Printed on lightweight card stock, ca. 11 x 7 inches. On the back is a mounted reproduction of a picture titled "The Music Lesson." Age rubbed but crisp. Pin-pricks in corners. Decorastive advertisement for a veterinary remedy showing..... More
[Philadelphia: Barker, Moore & Mein Medicine Co.], n.d. [1906 or later]. Revised edition. Soft cover, cloth spine. [46]p, many line ills. + color covers. The front cover shows "Old Farmer Green and His Flying Machine Be-Gosh." The back cover is a racist cartoon showing "Pete Gubison Scared into a Spell..... More
Geneva and Paris: Droz, 1966. First edition. Soft cover. 473p + a few plates and tables. Vol. 5, no. 2, in the series Hautes Etudes Medievales et Modernes published by the Centre de Recherches d'Histoire et de Philologie of the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris. Laid in: offprint of..... More
N.p. [St. Louis]: N.D. Thompson & Co., n.d. (copyright 1882). No stated edition. Unbound sheet. Large veterinary chart, 46 line ills. Folded, ca. 5 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches; unfolded, ca. 33 1/2 x 22 inches. Printed on one side. Intended for display but apparently rarely opened and never hung..... More
Chicago: James B. Campbell, Copyrighted 1891 but later. Second edition. Soft cover. 48p, many line ills. Preface to the second edition printed on inside front cover. Users' testimonials at the end, one of which is dated June 1892. Ink stamp of C.G. Manning, Dunkirk, N.Y. on back cover (probably a...... More
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1918. First edition. Soft cover. 52p, several line ills. and tables + 5 plates of photos. (USDA Bulletin 597). On the life history of these bots (the original kind), larval infestation, natural and mechanical methods of control, etc., with tables analyzing the results of various..... More
![Item #32197 [Nineteenth-Century Veterinary Manuscript]. W. Hayward, compiler](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/32197.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1722285682)
N.p. [London? ]: n.d. [probably 19th century]. Unpublished. Soft cover (limp leather). [72] pages filled in, the rest blank. No ills. Compiler's name written on inside cover: "W. Hayward, West Lodge Stable, Blackheath, London S.E." Ca. 4 1/2 x 7 inches. Dozens of handwritten veterinary recipes, mostly in ink and..... More
[New York]: [L.W. Warner?], n.d. [probably 1877]. Revised edition (1st pub. 1871). Stapled softcover. 46p, several line ills. Lacks covers. Brochure promoting Dr. Herrick's patent medicines, "giving a description of the internal and external diseases and ailments of horses, cattle, mules, sheep, hogs, and poultry, with a sure and safe-method..... More
Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. 611p, no ills. Guide to hundreds of archival records relating to the veterinary profession in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man. Where to find the records of practices, individuals, companies, professional associations, national and local governments, schools and..... More
![Item #31527 Use Gombault's Caustic Balsam [with portrait of trotter Boralma 2:07]. Williams...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31527.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1684238752)
Cleveland: Lawrence, Williams Co., n.d. [ca. 1902]. No stated edition. Unbound card. Chromolithographed trade card, ca. 5 x 3 1/2 inches. Ink stamp of G. Jay Tompkins (a local distributor?) on back. Thomas Lawson's Boralma 2:07, "one of the most famous trotters seen on the turf," is used to advertise..... More
Toulouse: Office du Livre, 1936. First edition. Hardcover (library buckram). 812p, no ills. Ex-university-lib., with shelf number, blind stamp, and pocket at the rear. In French. This detailed history of veterinary medicine from antiquity through the end of the 19th century is still a landmark work in its field, and..... More
Bologna: L. Cappelli, n.d. [1925]. No stated edition. Soft cover. [24]p, 5 lift-up plates. Covers foxed; one gathering detached. Printed on a heavy newsprint-like paper. In Italian. Anatomical guide to the most common visible ailments and defects of the horse. Following the text, 5 color plates show the exterior, skeleton..... More
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1846. Miles, W. Third edition (1st pub. 1846). Hardcover (original brown cloth, blind- and gilt-stamped). [60]p, many lithographed ills. on 10 plates by the author. Foxed throughout. Ex-public lib., with old bookplate. Covers speckled and faded, spine chipped but binding is okay. On basic..... More
[New York]: New York Women's League for Animals, 1921. First edition. Soft cover. 76p, several photos (chiefly dogs, also a photo of the new horse ambulance). The League operated a free hospital and dispensary at 350 Lafayette Street, New York, which in 1920 handled ca. 9,500 cases and surgeries on..... More
Goshen, IN: Spohn Medical Co., 1935. No stated edition. Stapled soft cover. 20p, photos throughout. Slight handling wear. Ca. 6 x 9 inches. A pamphlet distributed with compliments of Spohn. The lessons cover gentling, bitting, long lining, voice commands, desensitizing to such frights as a rattling road roller, truck with..... More
![Item #31626 [Advertising Trade Card for McClain's "Success" Sweat Collars]. No...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31626.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1689031752)
Cincinnati: Henderson-Achert Lith. Co., n.d. [ca. 1900]. No stated edition. Unbound card. Chromolithographed lightweight card stock, ca. 5 1/2 x 3 inches. The shoulder sore seems to have been lightly scraped--for maximum painful effect? Perhaps a proof, as there is no text on the back although the front directs the..... More
![Item #32499 Watkins' Stock Raisers' Manual [cover title]. No stated author](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/32499.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1736199312)
Winona, MN: J.R. Watkins Medical Company, n.d. [ca. 1911]. No stated edition. Soft cover. 48p, several line ills. Salesman's order form printed on inside back cover, with notes of a customer's order in 1912. Hole in upper right with thread for hanging up. Diseases and ailments of horses, cattle, sheep..... More
Murray Bridge, South Australia: T. O'Dea, n.d. [ca. 1927]. First edition. Hardcover (limp cloth). 65p, many ads for businesses in Adelaide and elsewhere. No d.j., as issued. Diagnosing and treating many ailments of horses, cattle, and sheep with formulas of oils, herbs, etc.--belladonna, turpentine, etc. Can be sent outside the..... More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. 190p, no ills. No jacket (as issued?). (Institute for Government Research, Service Monographs of the United States Government, No. 41). Summarizes the BAI's many functions (improved livestock breeding, prevention of cruelty to animals, meat inspection, disease control, veterinary education, etc.), followed by..... More
Lockport, NY: M.C. Richardson, 1869. First edition. Soft cover. [136]p, no ills. Lacks front cover, p. 135, and the table of contents, which are all supplied in photocopy. Lacks back cover. The photo shows the photocopy of the front cover, scanned from a different copy. Criticizes Rarey's methods and promotes..... More
Paris: La Compagnie des Librairies, 1769. No stated edition. Hardcover (old full leather, worn but expertly rebacked). 2 vols.: 317, 299p + several engraved plates (all called for; some folding). Old deaccession from the Polytechnic Society of Kentucky/Kentucky Historical Society, with various handwritten numbers and one title-page ink stamp. Bookplates..... More
London and Cambridge, UK: British Equine Veterinary Association and Romney Publications, 1999. First edition. Soft cover. 324p, many photos and other ills., a few in color. Rich collection of articles by 77 specialists from 9 countries on a wide range of aspects of equine veterinary care and research, chiefly 19th..... More
Paris and Lyon: Labe and Savy, 1859 and 1860. First edition. Hardcover (plain period binding, leather spine). 246p, no ills. Two vols. bound in one. Old ink stamp of a French veterinarian on the half-title page. In French. On the causes, presentation, diagnosis, and treatment of equine pleurisy. The author..... More
![Item #32422 Biographisch-Literarisches Lexicon der Thierarzte aller Zeiten und Lander [etc.]...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/32422.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1725299964)
[Stuttgart]: [Ebner & Seubert], 1863. PHOTOCOPY of first edition. Loose sheets in two prong kraft binders. 499p, 43 line portraits and 95 facsimile signatures. All in German. Some unobtrusive pencil marks and notes. Entries for over 2000 veterinarians and other horse and livestock handlers. A high-quality PHOTOCOPY of this substantial..... More
Munich: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen, 1954. First edition. Unbound sheets. 124p, 1 ill. Duplicated typescript. In German. PHOTOCOPY of this doctoral dissertation in veterinary medicine. Describes the authors, editions, and content of about two dozen books by Bohme, Fugger, Lohneisen, Seuter, Trichter, Winter, etc., and also the German editions of non-German authors..... More
