Rare Early Indiana Farriery

(FARRIERY). LAMB, CORNELIUS. The Western Farrier: in which the Principal Diseases of Horses are Described, and the Mode of Treatment...Remarks on Stable Management, Feeding, Exercise, Etc. An entirely original, practical, and experimental description and treatment of pestilential fever, yellow water...big shoulder, big jaw, big head, etc. etc. Arranged and Published by George C. Snow. Terre Haute, [Indiana]: George A. Chapman, 1841. 1st ed. 16mo. 160 pp. Contemp. calf backed boards, spine mostly shot. Lacking one leaf of text (pp. 139-40). Foxed, some soiling, but good. $475.00

Byrd & Peckham, Indiana Imprints, 937, recording one copy which does not have the plate called for on the title. Our copy shows no evidence of a plate. NUC records two copies, without mentioning a plate. R & B 41-2979, locating the same two copies.

Lamb is identified on the title leaf as "the great farrier of the west."