Dictionnaire de médecine et de chirurgie vétérinaires, ouvrage utile aux vétérinaires, aux officiers de cavalerie, aux propriétaires, aux fermiers, aux cultivateurs, et à toutes les personnes chargées du soin et du gouvernement des animaux domestiques

First edition (the work was reissued in 1838–1839); an atlas was planned but appears never to have been published (its prospectus is bound at the beginning of volume IV), cf. Mennessier de La Lance I, 657.

Half blond calf bindings, spines with four raised bands framed with gilt garlands and decorated with gilt fillets and vine motifs, as well as blind-stamped scrolls, marbled paper boards showing some rubbing with small losses, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, sprinkled edges, contemporary bindings.

Two headcaps shaved, some foxing, small loss along one joint of the volume entitled Elève d’Alfort. Hurtrel d’Arboval (1777–1839) was particularly interested in equine epizootics.

At the head of each volume, an autograph presentation inscription from Louis Henri Joseph Hurtrel d’Arboval to a captain instructor of the 1st Regiment of Horse Artillery (recipient’s name erased).