Description: Description 1834, First American edition. 360pp, 9 x 5.5", one-quarter leather binding with marbled boards. Gilt title on leather label on spine. Black and white illustrations throughout. Condition Marbled board surface scuffed, spine surface a little worn. Front free endpaper detached, previous owner's name on front pastedown, title page, and page 1. Foxing throughout. THIS IS NOT EX-LIB. Extremely rare. About this book This is an historic and comprehensive work on the history of the horse and many related subjects! William Youatt (1776–1847) was an English veterinary surgeon. Youatt was the son of a non-conformist minister. He was educated for the nonconformist ministry, and undertook ministerial and scholastic duties in London. He was in Chichester, Sussex by 1803, when he married Mary Payne on the 12th of December at All Saints Chichester. At some uncertain date, in 1812 or 1813, he joined Delabere Pritchett Blaine (1768–1848) in conducting a veterinary infirmary in Wells Street, Oxford Street. This partnership continued for a little more than twelve years, when the business passed into Youatt's hands. In 1830 Youatt entered into an arrangement with the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge to write a series of handbooks on the breeds, management, and diseases of the different animals of the farm. The volumes continued to appear at irregular intervals during the ensuing ten years. In 1839 a testimonial was presented to Youatt by various members of the veterinary profession as a mark ‘of the high esteem they entertain of his literary labours in veterinary science.’ A full account of the proceedings appeared in the ‘Veterinarian’ (xii. 595–619), and is noteworthy by reason of the long autobiographical speech in which Youatt traced the growth of veterinary literature in his time. William Youatt's 1834 book on cattle is noted as an influence on Charles Darwin's work on natural selection soon thereafter, due to Youatt's understanding of artificial selection in animal breeding. Youatt described the selection of close kin of slaughtered animals with desirable characteristics for future breeding. (Wikipedia)
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Year Printed: 1834
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Topic: Horses
Binding: Leather
Author: William Youat
Subject: History
Original/Facsimile: Original
Language: English
Publisher: Duff Green
Place of Publication: Washington
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Illustrated
