£200 - £300
Cattle. Coates (George, of Carlton, near Pontefract), The General Short-Horned Herd-Book: Containing the Pedigrees of Short-Horned Bulls, Cows, &c. of the Improved Durham Breed, From the earliest Account, to the year 1822, first edition, Otley: Printed by W. Walker, at the Wharfdale Stanhope Press, 1822, half-title, pp: xxxix, 576, [10] (errata and list of subscribers), illustrated with 7 lithographs, toned and foxed, a few creased leaves, some stains, contemporary quarter-roan gilt over marbled boards, 8vo.
A rare copy of this the first volume of the Shorthorn Herd book, and the first such publication in the world.
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