The compleat horseman and expert ferrier. : in two bookes : the first, shewing the best manner of breeding good horses, with their choyce, nature, riding and dyeting, as well for running as hunting, and how the rider ought to behave himselfe in the breaking and riding of colts, as also teaching the groome and keeper his true office, touching the horses and colts committed to his charge, and prescribing the best manner how a perfect stable ought to be scituated and made, not hitherto so fully described by any. The second, directing the most exact and approved manner how to know and cure all maladies and diseases in horses, a worke containing the secrets and best skill belonging either to ferrier or horse-leech, the cures placed alphabetically, with many hundreds of medicines never before imprinted in any author. Published at the earnest request of sundry noble and worthy gentlemen, for the generall good and benefit of the whole kingdome, and dedicated to his most Excellent Majestie /

Niall Kenny description: There are 3 variants of the first edition recorded in the ESTC, but in fact there are 4. These are identical in pagination and collation but are, in order of precedence: 1) London, Printed by Thomas Harper, and are to be sold by Nicholas Vavasour, at his shop in the inner Te...

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