The compleat horseman: discovering the surest marks of the beauty, goodness, faults of horses : the signs and causes of their diseases, the true method both of their preservation, and cure: with reflections on the regular and preposterous use of bleeding and purging. Also the art of shoeing, with the several kinds of shoes adapted to the various defects of bad feet, and the preservation of good. Together with the best method of breeding colts, backing them, and making their mouths /

Niall Kenny description: Plates are bound at p2, p208, p228, p258, p286, p326; pagination errors as in Mellon 41. This is a translation of the original "Parfait mareschal"; a variant copy also dated 1717 exists without the odd extra page numbers 323-324, and may also have variant spelling...

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