The parfait mareschal, or Compleat farrier. : Which teacheth, I. To know the shapes and goodness, as well as faults and imperfections of horses. II. The signs and causes of their diseases, the means to prevent them, their cure, and the good or bad use of purging and bleeding. III. The way to order and preserve them, when upon travel, to feed, and to dress them. IV. The art of shoeing, according to a new design of shoes, which will recover bad feet, and preserve the good. Together with a treatise, how to raise and bring up a true and beautiful race of horses: as also instructions, whereby to fit all kinds of horses with proper bits, whereof the chief draughts are represented in copper-plates. /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Printed by George Mosman,
M.DC.XCVI. [id est 1696]
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| Series: | Early English books online.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Item Description: | With additional engraved title pages. Includes indices. "A supplement of horsemanship, to the first part of The parfair mareschal ... by Sir William Hope" has separate undated title page, with imprint "Printed in Edinburgh", pagination and register. Reproduction of the original in the National Library of Scotland. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource ([52], 261, [5], 86, [18], 300, [4] p, 8 leaves of plates (six folded) : illustrations. |