Jun 21, 2016 - Sale 2420

Sale 2420 - Lot 346

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(CUBA.) [O'Farril, Joseph Ricardo; and Juan Bautista Lanz.] Gracia concedida por S.M. á los habitantes de esta isla para la introduccion de caballos frisones de ambos sexôs, desde las provincias del Norte de América. [8], 12 pages. 4to, modern calf gilt; foxing, early inscription on title page, title page irregularly cropped. 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. The main body of the work follows a second title page, "Memoria sobre la cria de ganado mular y caballar, y mejora de sus castas." Medina, Habana 162; Sabin 56747.