Creator Gender: unknown / Subject Terms: Horses -- Diseases -- Early works to 1800.

1. Medical miscellany.

Date:: second half of the 15th century
Physical Description:: 1 volume : paper ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Cours d'hippiatrique, ou Traité complet de la médecine des chevaux : orné de soixante & cinq planches gravées avec soin / Par M. Lafosse, hippiatre.

Creator:: Lafosse, Philippe-Etienne, 1738–1820
Date:: M.DCC.LXXII [1772]
Physical Description:: [6] p., xvij, [1], xj, [1], 402, vj p., [72] leaves of plates : ill. ; 54 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A new treatise on the diseases of horses : wherein what is necessary to the knowledge of a horse, the cure of his diseases, and other matters relating to that subject, are fully discussed, in a plain and easy manner for many years practice and experience : with the cheapest and most efficacious remedies / by William Gibson, surgeon, in Duke-Sreet, Grosvenor-Square ; illustrated with thirty-two copper-plates.

Creator:: Gibson, W. (William), 1680?-1750
Date:: MDCCLI [1751]
Physical Description:: [12], 464, [12] pages, XXXI leaves of plates : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The fower chiefest offices belonging to horsemanshippe : that is to say, the office of the breeder, of the rider, of the keeper, and of the ferrer. In the first parte wherof is declared the order of breeding of horses. In the seconde howe to breake them, and to make them horses of seruice. Conteyninge the whole art of ryding latelye set foorth, and nowe newelye corrected and amended of manye faultes escaped in the fyrst printing, as well touchyng the byttes as otherwyse. Thirdely, howe to dyet them, aswell when they reste as when they traueyle by the way. Fourthly, to what diseases they be subiecte togither with the causes of such diseases, the sygnes howe to knowe them, and finally howe to cure the same. which bookes are not onely painefully collected out of a number of aucthours, but also orderly dysposed and applyed to the vse of thys oure countrey / By Tho. Blundeuill of Newton Flotman in Norff.

Creator:: Blundeville, Thomas, active 1561
Date:: [1570?]
Physical Description:: [5], 23, [2], 24-25, [4], 58, [29], 24, [5], 93, [1] leaves : ill. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Ecole de cavalerie : contenant la conoissance, l'instruction, et la conservation du cheval. Avec figures en taille-douce / Par M. de la Gueriniere , ecuyer du Roy.

Creator:: La Guérinière, François Robichon de, 1688–1751
Date:: MDCCXXXIII [1733]
Physical Description:: [10], 276, [8] p., [19] leaves of plates : ill. ; 45 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The compleat horseman and expert ferrier : In two bookes. The first, shewing the best manner of breeding good horses, with their choyce, nature, riding and dyeting, 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 manner how a perfect stable ought to be scituated and made, not hitherto so fully described by any. The second, directing the most exact and approved manner 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-leech: the cures placed alphabetically: with many hundreds of medicines never before imprinted in any author. Published at the earnest request of sundry noble and worthy gentlemen, for the generall good and benefit of the whole kingdome: and dedicated to His most excellent Majestie / By Thomas de Gray Esquire.

Creator:: De Grey, Thomas
Date:: 1639
Physical Description:: [32], 356, [8] p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Markhams maister-peece : Contayning all knowledge belonging to the smith, farrier, or horse-leech, touching the curing of all diseases in horses: drawne with great paine, and most approved experience, from the publicke practise of all the forraine horse-marshals in Christendome; and from the private practise of all the best farriers of this kingdome. Being divided into two bookes. The first contayning all cures physicall: the second all belonging to chyrurgery; with an addition of 160. principall chapters, and 370. most excellent medicines, never written of, nor mentioned in any author whatsoever. Together with the true nature, use, and quality of every simple spoken of through the whole worke / Written by Gervase Markham, Gent.

Creator:: Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:: 1636
Physical Description:: [16], 588, 599-601, [15] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. The gentleman farrier's repository, of elegant and approved remedies for the diseases of horses; : in two books. Containing, I. The surgical; II. The medical part of practical farriery; also, directions for the proper treatment of post chaise and other horses, after violent exercise. : With suitable remarks on the whole. : To which are now added; observations on broken-winded horses, endeavouring to prove the seat of that malady not to be in the lungs. : [Three lines from Ovid] / By J. Bartlet, surgeon.

Creator:: Bartlet, J. (John), 1716?-1772
Date:: M,DCC,LXXV. [1775]
Physical Description:: xii, 293, [3] pages ; 17 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Markham's master-piece revived : containing all knowledge belonging to the smith, farrier, or horse-leach, touching the curing all diseases, in horses. Drawn with great pains from approved experience, and the publick practice of the best horse-marshals in Christendom. Divided into two books. The I. containing cures physical; the II. all cures chirurgical: together with the nature, use and quality of every simple mentioned through the whole work. Now the fourteenth time printed, corrected and augmented with above thirty new chapters, and forty new medicines heretofore never publish'd. To which is added by way of appendix, The countrey-man's care for his other cattle, containing the exactest receipts for curing all diseases in oxen, cows, sheep, hogs, goats, and all smaller cattel, with many new additions. And now in this impression is added The compleat jockey; containing methods for the training of horses up for racing; with their heats and courses, and manner of keeping, &c. Also instructions to the buyers, to avoid cheating horse-coursers; and all things necessary for gentlemen, and others. Never before made publick.

Creator:: Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:: 1688
Physical Description:: [16], 80 p., pp. 79-394, [2], 26, 49, [3] p. : ill. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. The compleat horseman : discovering the surest marks of the beauty, goodness, faults, and imperfections of horses : the signs and causes of their diseases ... : also the art of shoeing ... : together with the best method of breeding colts ... / by the Sieur de Solleysell ... ; to which is added a most excellent supplement of riding, collected from the best authors, with an alphabetical catalogue of all the physical simples in English, French, and Latin ; made English from the eighth edition of the original by Sir William Hope ... ; the whole illustrated with copper cuts ...

Creator:: Solleysel, Jacques de, 1617–1680
Date:: 1717
Physical Description:: 2 v. ([2], xlv, [1], 326, 323-324, [2], xvi, 300, [4] p.) : ill., port. ; 32 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. The gentleman's pocket-farrier : showing how to use your horse on a journey, and what remedies are proper for common accidents that may befall him on the road : with a copper-plate showing the age of a horse by his teeth.

Creator:: Burdon, William
Date:: 1791
Physical Description:: [2], 62 pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustrations ; 11 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Elements of the veterinary art : containing an essay on the proportions of the celebrated eclipse : six lectures on farriery, or the art of horse-shoeing, and on the diseases of the foot : an essay on the grease, which obtained the prize given by the Royal Society of Medicine : an essay on the glanders : and observations on the gripes : the whole illustrated with nine anatomical, geometrical, and mechanical engravings / by Charles Vial de Sainbel, late equerry to the King and Professor to the Veterinary College ; to which is prefixed, a short account of his life.

Creator:: Vial de Sainbel, Charles, 1753–1793
Date:: 1797
Physical Description:: 29, [1], 83, [1], 2, [3], vi-xii, [5], ii-iii, [2], 6-202, [2]; 127, [1] pages, [2], III, 2, III-IV leaves of plates (4 folded) : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Cauelarice, or The English horseman : contayning all the arte of horse-manship, as much as is necessary for any man to vnderstand, whether he be horse-breeder, horse-ryder, horse-hunter, horse-runner, horse-ambler, horse-farrier, horse-keeper, coachman, smith, or sadler. Together, with the discouery of the subtill trade or mistery of horse-coursers, & an explanatio[n] of the excellency of a horses vndersta[n]ding, or how to teach them to doe trickes like Bankes his curtall: and that horses may be made to drawe drie-foot like a hound. Secrets before vnpublished, & now carefully set down for the profit of this whole nation / by Geruase Markham.

Creator:: Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:: 1607
Physical Description:: [16], 88, [4], 212, 233-264, [4], 67, 58-72, [4], 54, [4], 56, [4], 64, [4], 11, 10-81, [5], 20, 25-40 p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Remedies for diseases in horses / approued and allowed by diuers verie auncient learned mareschalles.

Date:: 1583
Physical Description:: [28] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. The Gentleman's jocky 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; T.D. N.S. R.B. J.W. and others.

Creator:: Halfpenny, John, active 1671
Date:: 1671
Physical Description:: [16], 300, [4] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 17 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. The horse-mans honour: or, The beautie of horse-man-ship : As the choise, natures, breeding, breaking, riding, and dieting, whether outlandish or English horses. With the true, easie, cheape, and most approued manner, how to know and cure all diseases in any horse whatsoeuer. Not innented [sic] and drawn from forraigne nations, but by long experience and knowledge of many yeares practise: and now published at the request of diuers honorable and worthy persons, for the generall good of this noble nation of Great Britaine.

Creator:: Morgan, Nicholas, of Crolane
Date:: 1620
Physical Description:: [16], 188, 191-255, 266-288, 288-295, 295-343, 144-145, [1] p. : ill. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Georgii Simonis Winteri, Hippiater expertus, seu Medicina equorum absolutissima, tribus libris comprehensa : quorum I. Agit de equorum temperamentis; aetate cognoscendâ; morbis omnibus internis capitis; oculorum; aurium; narium; linguae; dentium; oris; aliisq́ue his similibus: II. De affectibus internis thoracis & abdominis nempe pulmonum & cordis; itemq́ue hepatis; lienis; ventriculi; intestinorum; renum; vesicae; nec non de purgatione equorum & pabulatione per gramen; de clysteribus; suppositoriis; de febribus & de peste. III. De omnis generis unguentis; oleis; balsamis & emplastris in genere; item de quibuscunque morbis ac symptomatibus externis; ut: tumoribus, ulceribus & vulneribus cujuscunque generis; ungularum etiam vitiis; fracturâ & luxatione ossium; medicamentorum ad horum morborum curationem necessariorum variis formulis; de venae sectione; de affectibus nervorum &c. Non minus ex probatissimis authoribus congesta, quàm propriâ multorum annorum experientiâ longâq́[ue] praxi stabilita, & multis figuris aeneis elegantissimis, remq́[ue] ipsam miro artificio clarissimè ob oculos ponentibus exornata, & in gratiam exterarum quoque gentium ex vernacula in Latinam translata, nuncq́[ue] primùm typis exscripta.

Creator:: Winter, Georg Simon, b. ca. 1634
Date:: Anno MDCLXXVIII [1678]
Physical Description:: [16], 490, [10] p. : ill., port. ; 34 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. The gentlemans pocket farrier / by Captain Burdon ; with large additions and remarks by Dr. Henry Bracken of Lancaster ; shewing the diseases and accidents a horse is liable to, and the most approved methods of cure ; also many useful observations & remarks concerning the choice and management of horses.

Creator:: Burdon, William
Date:: [between 1775 and 1777?]
Physical Description:: [12], 76, [6] pages, [1] leaf of plates ; 17 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Liber equorum and De la generatione deli oselli de rapina.

Date:: between 1400 and 1450
Physical Description:: 1 volume (ff. i + 60 + iii) : parchment ; 255 x 174 mm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. The citizen and countryman's experienced farrier, containing ... : to all which is added, a valuable and fine collection of the surest and best receipts in the known world for the cure of all maladies and distempers that are incident to horses of what kind soever, with directions to know what is the ailment or disease / by J. Markham, G. Jefferies, and discreet Indians.

Creator:: Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:: MDCCXCVII [1797]
Physical Description:: viii, 9-317, [1] pages : illustrations ; 17 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Feresnámé : a treatise on horses : compiled originally in the Shanskirt language by a society of learned pundits, translated from that into Persian by Abdallah Khan Firoze Jung, and now translated from the latter into English.

Creator:: Sa-li-ho-tra
Date:: circa 1785
Physical Description:: 1 v. ([220] p.) ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. A practical treatise on farriery : deduced from the experience of above forty years, in the services, of the late Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, bart., the present Earl Grosvenor, and, the present Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, bart. / by William Griffiths, Groom, at Wynnstay.

Creator:: Griffiths, William, groom
Date:: [1784]
Physical Description:: [4], iii, [1], 184, [14] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Dell'anotomia et dell'infirmità del cauallo / di Carlo Ruini senatore Bolognese.

Creator:: Ruini, Carlo, d. 1598
Date:: MDXCVIII [1598]
Physical Description:: 2 pt. in 1 v. ([36], 295, [5], 386, [30] p.) : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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Subject Terms Horses -- Diseases -- Early works to 1800.

1. Medical miscellany.

2. Cours d'hippiatrique, ou Traité complet de la médecine des chevaux : orné de soixante & cinq planches gravées avec soin / Par M. Lafosse, hippiatre.

5. Ecole de cavalerie : contenant la conoissance, l'instruction, et la conservation du cheval. Avec figures en taille-douce / Par M. de la Gueriniere , ecuyer du Roy.

11. The gentleman's pocket-farrier : showing how to use your horse on a journey, and what remedies are proper for common accidents that may befall him on the road : with a copper-plate showing the age of a horse by his teeth.

14. Remedies for diseases in horses / approued and allowed by diuers verie auncient learned mareschalles.

19. Liber equorum and De la generatione deli oselli de rapina.

21. Feresnámé : a treatise on horses : compiled originally in the Shanskirt language by a society of learned pundits, translated from that into Persian by Abdallah Khan Firoze Jung, and now translated from the latter into English.

22. A practical treatise on farriery : deduced from the experience of above forty years, in the services, of the late Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, bart., the present Earl Grosvenor, and, the present Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, bart. / by William Griffiths, Groom, at Wynnstay.

23. Dell'anotomia et dell'infirmità del cauallo / di Carlo Ruini senatore Bolognese.

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1. Medical miscellany.

2. Cours d'hippiatrique, ou Traité complet de la médecine des chevaux : orné de soixante & cinq planches gravées avec soin / Par M. Lafosse, hippiatre.

5. Ecole de cavalerie : contenant la conoissance, l'instruction, et la conservation du cheval. Avec figures en taille-douce / Par M. de la Gueriniere , ecuyer du Roy.

11. The gentleman's pocket-farrier : showing how to use your horse on a journey, and what remedies are proper for common accidents that may befall him on the road : with a copper-plate showing the age of a horse by his teeth.

14. Remedies for diseases in horses / approued and allowed by diuers verie auncient learned mareschalles.

19. Liber equorum and De la generatione deli oselli de rapina.

21. Feresnámé : a treatise on horses : compiled originally in the Shanskirt language by a society of learned pundits, translated from that into Persian by Abdallah Khan Firoze Jung, and now translated from the latter into English.

22. A practical treatise on farriery : deduced from the experience of above forty years, in the services, of the late Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, bart., the present Earl Grosvenor, and, the present Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, bart. / by William Griffiths, Groom, at Wynnstay.

23. Dell'anotomia et dell'infirmità del cauallo / di Carlo Ruini senatore Bolognese.