Stable Economy: A Treatise on the Management of Horses, in Relation to Stabling, Grooming, Feeding, Watering, and Working
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1845. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 378, [24]pp. Blind-stamped brown cloth. From the Third English Edition, with notes and additions, adapting it to American food and climate, by A. B. Allen." Contents include construction of stables, ventilation, appendages of stables, management of diseased and defective horses, etc. Illustrated with in-text engravings. Age wear and staining on binding. Backstrip missing. Inscribed by previous owners on inside of front board. Sporadic foxing throughout. Newspaper clips pasted on rear endpapers. 24 page publisher's catalogue bound in rear, as issued. Binding in poor, interior in good+ condition. fair. Item #23816
Price: $150.00