Feb 04, 2016 - Sale 2404

Sale 2404 - Lot 292

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(CUBA.) O'Farril, Joseph Ricardo; and Juan Bautista Lanz. Memoria sobre la cria de ganado mular y caballar, y mejora de sus castas. [2], 12 pages. 4to, disbound; heavily toned. [Havana, 1799]
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Observes that Cuban horses have been weakened by defective breeding, advocates the importation of North American horses to improve the stock, and suggests other practices for breeders. Though it has its own title page, this is extracted from a larger work by O'Farril titled "Gracia concedida por S.M. á los habitantes de esta isla para la introduccion de caballos frisones de ambos sexôs," which has three additional leaves. Medina, Habana 117; Sabin 56747; none known at auction.