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The compleat horse-man, and expert ferrier / by Thomas de Grey.
LIBRA - Fairman Rogers Collection SF285 .D32 1651
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- De Grey, Thomas.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Horses--Early works to 1800.
- Horses.
- Horses--Diseases.
- Veterinary medicine--Early works to 1800.
- Veterinary medicine.
- Physical Description:
- 30 unnumbered pages, 631, that is, 627 pages, 13 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm (4to)
- Edition:
- The second edition corrected, with some additions.
- Other Title:
- Compleat horseman, and expert ferrier
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for Thomas Harper and Nicholas Fussell, 1651.
- Notes:
- Remainder of t.p. transcription (following title proper): In two bookes. The first, shewing the best manner of breeding good horses, with their choice, nature, riding and dieting, as well for running as hunting, and how the rider ought to behave himselfe in the breaking and riding of colts; as also teaching the groome and keeper his true office, touching the horses and colts committed to his charge; and prescribing the best maner how a perfect stable ought to be scituated and made, not heretofore so fully described by any. The second, directing the most exact and approved maner how to know and cure all maladies and diseases in horses: a worke containing the secrets and best skill belonging either to ferrier or horse-leach: the cures placed alphabetically; with hundreds of medicines never before imprinted in any authour. Published at the earnest request of sundry noble and worthy gentlemen, for the generall good and benefit of the nation.
- "The printer to the reader," signed T. H., states that the additions promised by the author for the second edition were not received before his death, but will be included in the next edition.
- Signatures: a-c⁴ A-4S⁴.
- Title within woodcut border; woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces.
- With side- and shoulder-notes.
- Local Notes:
- Fairman Rogers copy: Imperfect: leaf a1 wanting.
- Cited in:
- ESTC (RLIN), R31361
- OCLC:
- 13602770
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