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Lot 223

Haney’s Art of Training Animals. A Practical Guide for Amat...

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Haney?s Art of Training Animals. A Practical Guide for Amateur or Professional Trainers. New York: Jesse Haney & Co., [1869]. Publisher?s gilt pictorial brick red cloth, front cover with vignettes of trained animals. Frontispiece, and over 60 engravings. [6], 14-210pp., [4, ads]. 8vo. Chapters on lion taming, serpent and crocodile training, flea circuses, singing and performing birds, training of sporting dogs, capturing and training elephants, and more. Minor wear to covers; scarce.