£100 - £150
(Husbandry, Cattle, Dairy Farming) A fine collection of works [William Youatt]. 'Cattle; Their Breeds, Management, and Diseases; With an Index,' full polished calf, raised bands and morocco label to spine, ex libris label George Jacob Bosanquet and Courtney Library, marbled edge and endpapers, vignette steel engraved title page and throughout, vg, the Society for the Diffusion of Usefull Knowledge, Baldwin and Cradock, London, 1838; 'The Complete Grazier and Farmers' and Cattle-Breeders' Assistant Forming a Compendium of Husbandry,' fourteenth edition, quarter red leather rubbed, ex libris labels, good to vg, Crosby Lockwood and Son, London, 1900; John Wrightson. 'Sheep. Breeds and Management,' No.1 in the Live Stock Handbooks series, original cloth sun faded, ex libris, steel engravings, good to vg, Vinton & Company, London, 1908; W. J. Malden. 'British Sheep and Shepherding,' first edition, original green cloth with gilt lettering, ex libris, advertisement to ffep, light spotting to edge of text block, vg, MacDonald & Martin, London, n.d; Willis P. Hazard. 'The Jersey, Alderney and Guernsey Cow: Their History, Nature and Management, How to Choose, Manage and Breed to the Most Profit,' tenth edition, vg pictorial gilt cloth, ex libris, frontis, graphite signature to title page, very light spotting to edge of text block, vg, Porter and Coates, Philadelphia, [n.d. but preface suggests c.1872]; 'The Golden Butter Breed. Guernsey Cattle,' printed card wraps with b+w photographic illustration pasted to front, string bound, ex libris label, advertisements, vg to fine, English Guernsey Cattle Society, London, 1928; 'The Herd Book of the Dairy South Devon Cattle Society 1927,' vol III only, cloth backed boards with gilt title to front board, ex libris, advertisements, fine, South Devon Cattle Society, [c.1927]; F. Oliver. 'Vacas, Ovejas y Cabras (Su explotacion lucrativa),' translated as 'Cows, Sheep and Goats (its lucrative exploitation),' first edition, cloth backed embossed boards, ex libris, vignette illustrations, fine, Jose Monteso, Barcelona, 1941; With approximatley 50 other works, including scarce booklets, mostly all vg. (50+ in three trays)
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