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    Woodcut anatomical illustration of a standing horse in profile showing exposed musculature in a landscape with stars.
    Woodcut anatomical illustration of a man standing and facing left with right arm uplifted, showing exposed musculature, with ruined stonework in the background.
    Woodcut human figure outline arms outstretched showing the branching pattern of the circulatory system.
    Copperplate engraved illustration of the nervous system of a flayed horse
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    Open book showing a woodcut of a horse skeleton parts of the body labeled with numbers indexed to text on the facing page.

    “Horse Skeleton” from Trattato vtile, e necessario ad ogni agricoltore by Giovanni Battista Ferraro, 1673

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    Title page in Italian with a decorative woodcut, library stamp, and handwritten annotations.
    Trattato vtile, e necessario ad ogni agricoltore by Giovanni Battista Ferraro, 1673
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    Open book showing on left a disease horse chart with lines leading from different parts of the horse’s body to numbers indexed on the facing text page
    “Disease Horse” from Trattato vtile, e necessario ad ogni agricoltore by Giovanni Battista Ferraro, 1673
    Book open showing on left a disease cow chart with lines leading from different parts of the horses body to numbers indexed on the facing text page.
    “Disease Cow” from Trattato vtile, e necessario ad ogni agricoltore by Giovanni Battista Ferraro, 1673
    Woodcut illustration of a dissected horse on its back exposing muscles, arteries, and internal organs, with four horseshoes.
    “Flayed Horse” from Trattato vtile, e necessario ad ogni agricoltore by Giovanni Battista Ferraro, 1673