The husbandman's instructor, or, Countryman's guide : containing plain and approved rules for the ordering, chusing, breeding, feeding, buying, selling, fattening, and to cure all manner of diseases in bulls, cows, calves, rams, ewes, lambs, swine, goats, asses, mules, dogs, conies, &c. To which is added, useful directions for the right ordering and improving poultry; how to cure their several distempers, and make them very profitable to their owners. Also instructions for destroying all sorts of vermin, which infest houses, fields, granaries, orchards, gardens, ships, beds, bedsteads, or any other places /

Niall Kenny description: Excellent copy in full speckled calf, with gilt spine and boards; bookplates of Schwerdt (Sotheby's, Lot 2004, 24/3/1946) and Duke of Gloucester (Christie's, Lot 524, 26/1/06); rare veterinary title and often attributed, without any good reason, to Adolphus Speed;...

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