The compleat horseman : discovering the surest marks of the beauty, goodness, faults and imperfections of horses, the signs and causes of their diseases, the true method both of their preservation and cure, with reflexions on the regular and preposterous use of bleeding and purging : also the art of shooing, with the several kinds of shooes, adapted to the various defects of bad feet, and the preservation of good : together with the best method of breeding colts, backing 'em, and making their mouth &c. /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Printed for M. Gillyflower [and 9 others],
MDCXCVI [1696]
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| Edition: | Made English from the eighth edition of the original, and adorn'd with figures. |
| Series: | Early English books online.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Item Description: | Translation of the author's Le parfait mareschal. Added engraved t.p. for part-one; engraved t.p. only for part two. Special t.p.: "A supplement of horsemanship, to the first part of The parfait mareschal ... by Sir William Hope ... Printed at Edinburgh." "Part I is a reissue, with cancel t.p., of the sheets of the Edinburgh edition with title: The parfait mareschal or Compleat farrier." --NUC pre-1956 imprints. Includes index. Reproduction of original in the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign Campus). Library. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (728 pages in various pagings, [9] leaves of plates : illustrations, portrait. |