Instruction pour les bergers et pour les proprietaires de troupeaux

by Louis Jean-Marie Daubenton

$650 · Offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

First edition

Paris: De L’Imprimerie de Ph.-D. Pierres, 1782. 8vo. xvi, 414, 2 pp. FIRST EDITION. With 22 full-page engraved plates, woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary calf, spine elaborate gilt with label, marbled endpapers; an excellent copy. Item #19025 First edition; everything you need to know about sheep. For the shepherd or flock owner, Daubenton treats anatomy and the various

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