The gentleman's new pocket companion : comprising a general description of the noble and useful animal the horse : together with the quickest and simplest mode of fattening, necessary treatment while undergoing excessive fatigue or on a journey : the construction and management of stables : different marks for ascertaining the age of a horse, from three to nine years old : with a concise account of the diseases to which the horse is most subject, with such remedies as long experience has proven effectual / by Richard Mason, of Surry County, Virginia.

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Title:: The gentleman's new pocket companion : comprising a general description of the noble and useful animal the horse : together with the quickest and simplest mode of fattening, necessary treatment while undergoing excessive fatigue or on a journey : the construction and management of stables : different marks for ascertaining the age of a horse, from three to nine years old : with a concise account of the diseases to which the horse is most subject, with such remedies as long experience has proven effectual / by Richard Mason, of Surry County, Virginia.
Published/Created:: Petersburg : Printed by John Dickson, Bollingbrook Street, 1811.
Physical Description:: [2], 4, [1], iv-vii, 176, [3], 11, [1] pages, [5] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
Holdings:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
SF951 .M37 1811
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:: Copyright Information
Full Orbis Record:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/9787884
Classification:: Books
Notes:: Subscribers's names: 11 pages at end.
In the primary sequence (176 pages), rectos are paginated with even numbers, versos with odd.
Shaw & Shoemaker, 23297.
Podeschi, J. B. Horse and horsemanship, 98
Includes index.
BAC: British Art Center copy bound in black quarter calf and marbled boards. Signed in manuscript: Thos. Neilson.
Subject Terms:: Horses -- Diseases.
Horses -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Neilson, Thos. -- Autograph.
Veterinary medicine.
Form/Genre:: Engravings -- 1811.
Subscriber's lists.
Contributors:: Dickson, John, -1814, publisher.
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