[PATENT OFFICE.]
Patents for Inventions: Abridgments of Specifications relating to Farriery, including the medical and surgical Treatment of Animals, A.D. 1719-1866 [– Part II. A.D. 1867-1876], printed by Order of the Commissioners of Patents.
London, George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode for the Office of the Commissioners of Patents for Inventions [– Commissioners of Patents’ Sale Department], 1872 [– 1880].
2 vols, 8vo, pp. I: xii, 184, II: ix, [1 (blank)], [2 (part-title)], 184, [32]; a very good set, unopened in publisher’s blue printed wrappers, stab-sewn; vol. I sewing defective in places, chipped at spine, lower wrapper detached and chipped.
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Patents for Inventions: Abridgments of Specifications relating to Farriery, including the medical and surgical Treatment of Animals, A.D. 1719-1866 [– Part II. A.D. 1867-1876], printed by Order of the Commissioners of Patents.
Very scarce publication of patents relating to farriery. Gathering patents granted in the century and a half before the establishment of the Patent Office, the entries describe a vast array of inventions, some practical and others fanciful, relating to all elements of farriery and veterinary science, and are introduced by a brief history of veterinary medicine and accompanied by a bibliography of works on farriery.
Copac records only one set in the UK (Senate House) and one additional copy of the second volume only (National Library of Wales); none could be traced at auction.
