[The gentleman's jockey, and approved farrier : instructing in the natures, causes, and cures of all diseases incident to horses : with an exact and easie method of breeding, buying, dieting, and otherwise ordering all sorts of horses, as well for common and ordinary use, as the heats and course / with divers other curiosities collected by the long practice, experience, and pains of J. H. esquire, Matthew Hodson, Mr. Holled, Mr. Willis, Mr. Robinson, Mr. Holden, Thomas Empson, Mr. Roper, Mr. Metcalf, and Nathaniel Shaw]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Halfpenny, John, active 1671.

Contributor:

Hodson, Matthew.

Shaw, Nathaniel.

Empson, Thomas.

Fairman Rogers Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horses--Diseases.

Horses.

Veterinary medicine--Early works to 1800.

Veterinary medicine.

Physical Description:

50+ unnumbered pages, 51-350+ pages : illustrations ; 19 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Matthew Hodson's medicines

Approved receipts for the curing of all diseases incident to horses

Place of Publication:

[London] : [publisher not identified], [between 1700 and 1799?]

Notes:

Attributed to John Halfpenny. Cf. Wing (2nd ed.), H283A.

"Matthew Hodson's medicines": p. 55-92. "Nathaniel Shaw's receipts": p. 93-334.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Fairman Rogers copy: Imperfect: t.p., p. 1-50, and final pages wanting. Title supplied from second ed., 1672.

Fairman Rogers copy: Imperfect: some leaves mended; dampstaining throughout.

OCLC:

63670155