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The Gentleman's Stable Directory or Modern System of Farriery -
William Taplin
1791 - G. G. J. and J. Robinsons, London - The Tenth Edition, Considerably Enlarged and Carefully Corrected.
Two volumes in fine contemporary bindings, volume I with an engraved portrait of Taplin. The second volume contains "Experimental Remarks upon Breeding, Breaking, Shoeing, Stabling, Exercise, and Rowelling. To which are added, particular Instructions for the General Management of Hunters and Road Horses; with Concluding Observations upon the present State of the Turf".
During the latter part of the eighteenth century there appears to have been a considerable demand for veterinary knowledge, and William Taplin (d.1807), part of a group of British surgeons who switched to become veterinarians, sailed on this tide into a fortune by selling medicine for horses by agencies all over the kingdom and advertising them by means of his books.
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1791 - G. G. J. and J. Robinsons, London - The Tenth Edition, Considerably Enlarged and Carefully Corrected.
Two volumes in fine contemporary bindings, volume I with an engraved portrait of Taplin. The second volume contains "Experimental Remarks upon Breeding, Breaking, Shoeing, Stabling, Exercise, and Rowelling. To which are added, particular Instructions for the General Management of Hunters and Road Horses; with Concluding Observations upon the present State of the Turf".During the latter part of the eighteenth century there appears to have been a considerable demand for veterinary knowledge, and William Taplin (d.1807), part of a group of British surgeons who switched to become veterinarians, sailed on this tide into a fortune by selling medicine for horses by agencies all over the kingdom and advertising them by means of his books.
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The Historie of Serpents. or, The seconde Booke of living Creatures -
Edward Topsell
1608 - William Jaggard, London - First Edition
Legendary and rare first edition of ‘the first book on reptiles and amphibians in English’ [ISHBH]. A contemporary bound folio illustrated throughout with stunning woodcuts (seven large engravings, over thirty in-text engravings, over seventy ornamental initials, decorative headpieces and tailpieces), and xylographic heading to the title page. Printed by William Jaggard (the printer of Shakespeare’s first folio).
Adders, aspes, vipers, lizards, frogges, chameleons, crocodiles, bees, torteyse (of the earth and of the sea), newtes, spyders, scorpions...
Dragons, sea-serpents, the cockatrice, the double-headed amphisbaena, the seven-headed hydra...
Topsell acknowledges his main source as the mid-sixteenth century Historia Animalium of Conrad Gesner (1516-1565), the Swiss physician and naturalist who is regarded as the father of modern scientific bibliography, zoology and botany. Gesner’s work was the first book of its type to use illustrations, mostly credited to the artist Lucas Schan of Strasburg, and many of these have been used by Topsell.
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1608 - William Jaggard, London - First Edition
Legendary and rare first edition of ‘the first book on reptiles and amphibians in English’ [ISHBH]. A contemporary bound folio illustrated throughout with stunning woodcuts (seven large engravings, over thirty in-text engravings, over seventy ornamental initials, decorative headpieces and tailpieces), and xylographic heading to the title page. Printed by William Jaggard (the printer of Shakespeare’s first folio).Adders, aspes, vipers, lizards, frogges, chameleons, crocodiles, bees, torteyse (of the earth and of the sea), newtes, spyders, scorpions...
Dragons, sea-serpents, the cockatrice, the double-headed amphisbaena, the seven-headed hydra...
Topsell acknowledges his main source as the mid-sixteenth century Historia Animalium of Conrad Gesner (1516-1565), the Swiss physician and naturalist who is regarded as the father of modern scientific bibliography, zoology and botany. Gesner’s work was the first book of its type to use illustrations, mostly credited to the artist Lucas Schan of Strasburg, and many of these have been used by Topsell.
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Exploration of Mount Kina Balu, North Borneo -
John Whitehead
1893 - Gurney and Jackson, London - First Edition
A beautiful copy of this stunningly illustrated and unsurpassed large folio containing 32 lithographed plates, comprising 11 natural history plates, hand-coloured and heightened with gum arabic, and 21 tinted lithographed views and ethnographic subjects, and with map and an additional 21 woodcut illustrations in the text.
A detailed narrative of John Whitehead's (1860-1899) travels from October 1884 to August 1888 in Borneo, Java, Palawan and Balabac Islands, especially of his three efforts (the last one successful) to ascend Mount Kina Balu. He brought back examples of many new animals, including no fewer than forty-five new species of birds. The author's primary interest was ornithology, but he also provides much information on head-hunting, religion and custom of the peoples of the region. Besides visiting North Borneo he spent several months in Java and Palawan, and made an expedition into the state of Malacca.
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1893 - Gurney and Jackson, London - First Edition
A beautiful copy of this stunningly illustrated and unsurpassed large folio containing 32 lithographed plates, comprising 11 natural history plates, hand-coloured and heightened with gum arabic, and 21 tinted lithographed views and ethnographic subjects, and with map and an additional 21 woodcut illustrations in the text.A detailed narrative of John Whitehead's (1860-1899) travels from October 1884 to August 1888 in Borneo, Java, Palawan and Balabac Islands, especially of his three efforts (the last one successful) to ascend Mount Kina Balu. He brought back examples of many new animals, including no fewer than forty-five new species of birds. The author's primary interest was ornithology, but he also provides much information on head-hunting, religion and custom of the peoples of the region. Besides visiting North Borneo he spent several months in Java and Palawan, and made an expedition into the state of Malacca.
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