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

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1. Medical miscellany.

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

2. 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.

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

3. 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.

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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

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.

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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. 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 ...

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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

6. 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.

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

7. 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.

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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

8. 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.

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

9. 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.

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

10. 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.

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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

11. 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.

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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