The complete farrier and British sportsman : containing a systematic enquiry into the structure and animal economy of the horse, the causes, symptoms, and most-approved methods of prevention and cure for every disease to which he is liable : a detection and exposure of the erroneous and bad methods of treatment generally adopted ; with numerous approved and original recipes for various diseases. The whole rendered easy and familiar, with a view to general utility, and founded on the latest discoveries and experimental facts, to which the progress of improvement for the last twenty years in the veterinary art has led, including a faithful delineation of the various dogs used in the sports of the field, with canine pathology. Interspersed with sporting anecdotes, and an account of the most celebrated horses, dogs, &c. &c. &c. Equally important to the British sportsman: as well as inn-keepers, coach-masters, farmers, owners of stage-waggons, &c. Embellished with a series of engravings, executed in the first style of the art, from original drawings in the posession of novelmen and gentlemen of the turf, and copied, by permission, exclusively for this work /
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| Language: | English |
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| Item Description: | Dedication, "To the noblemen and gentleman of the Quorn Hunt," dated Jan. 1, 1816. "Directions to the binder for placing the plates" on page 512 lists the 13 plates. All present in TAMU copy. Date estimated from latest date on engraved plate facing page 77: "Explanation, shewing the diseases of the legs of horses." "London. Published by Thos. Kelly, 17.Paternoster Row July 12, 1823." |
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| Physical Description: | 512 pages, 13 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm. (quarto) |