The gentleman's farriery, or, A practical treatise on the diseases of horses : wherein the best writers on that subject have been consulted, and M. La Fosse's method of trepanning glander'd horses is particularly consider'd and improved : also a new method of nicking horses is recommended ... : to which is added an appendix, treating, 1. Of particular disorders of the feet; 2. Observations on shoeing horses ... / by J. Bartlet ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bartlet, J. (John), 1716?-1772.

Contributor:

Fairman Rogers Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horses--Diseases.

Horses.

Horses--Early works to 1800.

Veterinary medicine--Early works to 1800.

Veterinary medicine.

Physical Description:

xxvi, that is, xxviii, 370 pages, 8 unnumbered pages, 6 leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations ; 18 cm (4to)

Edition:

The fourth edition, revised.

Other Title:

Gentleman's farriery

Practical treatise on the diseases of horses

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for John Nourse ..., Thomas Pote ..., and Joseph Pote ..., 1759.

Notes:

Signatures: A⁸ b⁶ B-2A⁸ 2B⁶(-2B6).

The original leaf b4 has been cancelled, and a fold of two leaves, paged xxiii-xxvi (p. [xxv] blank) inserted after p. xxii. An addition was probably made to the preface.

With side- and shoulder-notes.

Includes index.

The first edition appeared in 1753. Cf. Sir Frederick Smith, The early hist. of veterinary literature, v. 2, p. 72.

P. E. Lafosse's method of trepanning glandered horses (described on p. 114-132) is set forth in his Traité sur le véritable siége de la morve des chevaux, et les moyens d'y remédier, Paris, 1749. Bartlet's appendix (p. 342-370) is apparently an abstract of Lafosse's Observations et découvertes faites sur des chevaux, avec une nouvelle pratique sur la ferrure, Paris, 1754. The plates are copies of those in that work.

Local Notes:

Fairman Rogers copy: Imperfect: frontispiece and t.p. mended with no loss of text.

Fairman Rogers copy: Imperfect: p. [7]-[8] at end, wanting.

Cited in:

Fox, C.G. The Fairman Rogers Coll. on the horse and equitation, 66

ESTC (RLIN), N2413

Contains:

La Fosse, Étienne-Guillaume, -1765. Observations et découvertes faites sur des chevaux.

OCLC:

14335268