Engraved from Portraits painted from Life. Part First, Horses. [Part Second, Cattle ... Part Third, Specimens of the Scots Farm-Horse, of Sheep and Cattle]. Edinburgh: Ballantyne and Company, 1829-29-31. First edition, 3 parts (all published), oblong folio (57 x 45.5cm), original wrappers, part 1 with lithographic title-page, 2 pp. introduction, 4 engraved plates each with leaf of descriptive text, part 2 with letterpress title-page, 2 pp. introduction, 4 engraved plates each with leaf of descriptive text, part 3 with letterpress title-page, 4 pp. introduction, 4 (of 5) engraved plates, each with leaf of descriptive text, housed in 20th-century portfolio, variable spotting throughout (chiefly to wrappers and margins), offsetting, part 1 outer leaves and plates nicked along edges, part 2 front wrapper torn with loss, damp-stain and concomitant paper loss to lower corners, 'Ayrshire Bull' text-leaf torn with loss, 'Ayrshire Cows' plate with small hole to foot, part 3 final plate ('Young Clydesdale') lacking (text-leaf extant), front wrapper torn, rear wrapper absent, final 2 extant plates stained; Le Couteulx, Gustave. Vacherie nationale du Pin Orne. Animaux de la race courte corne améliorée, dite race de Durham, dessinés d'après nature suivant les ordres de Monsieur le MInistre de l'Agriculture et du Commerce. [Paris: no publisher, 1848]. First edition, oblong 4to (27.2 x 36cm), contemporary half calf, 13 lithographic plates (collation not established), 3 lithographic text-leaves, no title-leaf but original front wrapper (with ink stamps of the Royal Agricultural Society) bound in, spotting, front inner hinge gone, spine reinforced with tape; Baudement, Emile. Les races bovines au concours universel agricole de Paris en 1856. Paris: Imprimerie impériale, 1857. First edition, oblong folio, contemporary morocco, rebacked, 5 engraved colour maps, 87 heliogravure plates from photographs by Nadar and others, all mounted as issued, ink-stamps of the Royal Agricultural Society to title-page, occasional spotting; Parsons, Gilbert H. Notable Modern Shorthorns. Alsager, Cheshire: Harold Simms, 1906. First edition, one of 100 copies signed by the author, oblong 4to, original red cloth, rebacked, 37 photogravure plates, spotting, a few tissue-guards torn away; and 2 others (Lefebvre-Ste-Mairie, De la race bovine courte corne améliorée dite race de Durham, 1849, and a copy of John Watson Ravenshear's unpublished English translation of the same, word-processed, cloth-bound, with dust jacket) (6) Note: Howe's work, produced for the Highland Society of Scotland, is rare, with Library Hub tracing two copies only in UK institutions, the British Library and the V&A, and no other copy appearing at auction since 1970. WorldCat traces six copies of Le Couteulx's work, none in the UK. Provenance: The Library of the late John Watson Ravenshear, with his bookplates.
Engraved from Portraits painted from Life. Part First, Horses. [Part Second, Cattle ... Part Third, Specimens of the Scots Farm-Horse, of Sheep and Cattle]. Edinburgh: Ballantyne and Company, 1829-29-31. First edition, 3 parts (all published), oblong folio (57 x 45.5cm), original wrappers, part 1 with lithographic title-page, 2 pp. introduction, 4 engraved plates each with leaf of descriptive text, part 2 with letterpress title-page, 2 pp. introduction, 4 engraved plates each with leaf of descriptive text, part 3 with letterpress title-page, 4 pp. introduction, 4 (of 5) engraved plates, each with leaf of descriptive text, housed in 20th-century portfolio, variable spotting throughout (chiefly to wrappers and margins), offsetting, part 1 outer leaves and plates nicked along edges, part 2 front wrapper torn with loss, damp-stain and concomitant paper loss to lower corners, 'Ayrshire Bull' text-leaf torn with loss, 'Ayrshire Cows' plate with small hole to foot, part 3 final plate ('Young Clydesdale') lacking (text-leaf extant), front wrapper torn, rear wrapper absent, final 2 extant plates stained; Le Couteulx, Gustave. Vacherie nationale du Pin Orne. Animaux de la race courte corne améliorée, dite race de Durham, dessinés d'après nature suivant les ordres de Monsieur le MInistre de l'Agriculture et du Commerce. [Paris: no publisher, 1848]. First edition, oblong 4to (27.2 x 36cm), contemporary half calf, 13 lithographic plates (collation not established), 3 lithographic text-leaves, no title-leaf but original front wrapper (with ink stamps of the Royal Agricultural Society) bound in, spotting, front inner hinge gone, spine reinforced with tape; Baudement, Emile. Les races bovines au concours universel agricole de Paris en 1856. Paris: Imprimerie impériale, 1857. First edition, oblong folio, contemporary morocco, rebacked, 5 engraved colour maps, 87 heliogravure plates from photographs by Nadar and others, all mounted as issued, ink-stamps of the Royal Agricultural Society to title-page, occasional spotting; Parsons, Gilbert H. Notable Modern Shorthorns. Alsager, Cheshire: Harold Simms, 1906. First edition, one of 100 copies signed by the author, oblong 4to, original red cloth, rebacked, 37 photogravure plates, spotting, a few tissue-guards torn away; and 2 others (Lefebvre-Ste-Mairie, De la race bovine courte corne améliorée dite race de Durham, 1849, and a copy of John Watson Ravenshear's unpublished English translation of the same, word-processed, cloth-bound, with dust jacket) (6) Note: Howe's work, produced for the Highland Society of Scotland, is rare, with Library Hub tracing two copies only in UK institutions, the British Library and the V&A, and no other copy appearing at auction since 1970. WorldCat traces six copies of Le Couteulx's work, none in the UK. Provenance: The Library of the late John Watson Ravenshear, with his bookplates.
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