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The country-man's companion: or, A new method of ordering horses [and] sheep : so as to preserve them both from diseases and causalties [sic], or, to recover them if fallen ill, and also to render them much more serviceable and useful to their owners, than has yet been discovered, known or practised. And particularly to preserve sheep from that monsterous, mortifying distemper, the rot

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [1684]
Call number: 11096
Creator: Tryon, Thomas (1634-1703)(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: 8vo
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