[Texas Cattle Disease] Transactions of the New York State Agricultural Society Part II. Volume XXVII - 1867

[Texas Cattle Disease] Transactions of the New York State Agricultural Society, with an Abstract of the County Agricultural Societies. Part II. Volume XXVII - 1867. Albany: Van Benthuysen & Sons' Steam Printing House, 1869. First Edition. [10278]

Black pebble cloth with blind borders, bright gilt titles & decoration to spine, 9 1/4 x 6 inches, a little worming in the front joint. The page numbers for this volume are 657-1170, with 32 plates and additional text illustrations. Very good. Hardcover.

This volume includes Report of the N. Y. State Cattle Commissioners, in connection with the Special Report of the Metropolitan Board of Health, on the Texas Cattle Disease. This report has 22 chromolithographed plates, 4 b/w plates, and 9 hand-colored ones. These all illustrate the disease, either in diseased portions of a cattle carcass, or in reproductions of what may be seen with a microscope.
There is also a b/w wood engraving of Queens County Fair Grounds, near Mineola, Long Island.