30th Sep, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST
DOWNING (Joseph)
A Treatise on the Disorders Incident to Horned Cattle . . . to which are added Receipts, for curing the Gripes, Staggers, and Worms in Horses, 8vo, lacking the half-title and part-title, later half calf, Printed and Sold at Stourbridge, 1st Edn., variant issue, 1797
This copy has 12 pages of manuscript veterinary receipts bound at the end.
Sold for £300
Estimated at £100 - £200
Auction: The Glaisdale Agricultural Library: The Private Collection of a Yorkshire Agriculturalist, 30th Sep, 2022
Over the course of several decades, Yorkshire agriculturalist Martin Burtt assembled an extraordinary library of antiquarian agricultural books, which he carefully and sympathetically cared for and had repaired. The collection focuses on books from the 16th to 18th centuries, spanning the transition from an era when it was considered dubious to attempt to improve on God’s Creation to the advent of the Age of Reason with its huge rise in literacy, invention, experimentation, and applied rationality. The great agricultural writers all appear in the collection, which covers the obvious subjects connected with farming and husbandry, such as breeding of livestock, improvements in land use, crops, developments in technology and veterinary practices as well as other niche subjects from falconry, brewing, gardening, botany, beekeeping and dogs to rat catching and cheese making.
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