Early work on animal rights
Price: £250.00
John Lawrence A Philosophical and Practical Treatise on Horses and on the Moral Duties of Man towards the Brute Creation, 1810 3rd edition with large additions. Lawrence was one of the important figures in the development of the idea of Animal Rights. One chapter is entitled The Rights of Beasts where he calls for legislation recognising that animals have the right not to be cruelly treated and for offenders to be punished. 2 volumes complete. Volume one 624 pp; Volume two 572 pp. Both volumes bound in polished calf, rebacked in leather with new titles, gilt banding. One spine very slightly darker. Hinges strengthened with linen tape. Corners little scuffed. Solidly bound. Bookplate of William Marshall to both volumes, 1745 - 1818 a writer on agriculture and a great rival of Arthur Young, who seemed to trump him at every turn in his career.
The 'additions' in this, the third edition amount to over 100 new pages running from p. 454 in Volume two, so a substantial reworking from the earlier editions. Index to both volumes.
Chapters (vol. 1); Critical account of veterinary writers; the horse in general with some account of the breeds of different countries; the Rights of Beasts; The philosophy of sports; running horses and the turf; the appelations, qualities, habits and defects of horses; the paces and the equestrain art or modern method of riding on horseback, as practised by both sexes; draught cattle and their use and management, both in town and country, political economy &c; The menage; the economy of the stable, diet, exercise conditon soiling &c; the art of shoeing; purchase and sale.
Chapters (vol 2); medecine and surgery; purgation and alterants - bleeding - rowelling - setons - glysters &c; catarrh - epidemic cold or distemper - rheumatism - glnaders - broken wind; fever - pleurisy - peripneumony - superficial or external pleurisy - inflammation of diaphragm - antocor - yellows - strangles; Vertigo - staggers - apoplexy - epilepsy or falling evil - convulsions - stag evil - locked jaw - night-mare; loss of appetite - bulimia or craving appetite - costiveness - lax or scouring - molten grease - hidebound and surfeit - warbles - mange - farcy - plica polonica - dropsy - worms; diseases of the kidneys, reins and bladder - cholic - burstenness - falling of the fundament - gonorrhoea, and mattering of the penis - falling of the penis - venemous bites - swallowing of leaches, hen's dung &c - diseases of the eyes and the mouth; diseases of the legs and the feet, grease, lameness from relaxed or contracted sinews; tumours, wounds - ulcers with the proper external applications, miscellanea; the diseases of horned cattle and the proper treatment of cows and calves.
A very few pages a little tanned, little bit of foxing but really a very good handsome two volume copy of this rare work.
