Élémens d'hippiatrique, ou, Nouveaux principes sur la connoissance et sur la médecine des chevaux /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bourgelat, Claude, 1712-1779
Format: Book
Language:French
Published: A Lyon : Chez Henri Declaustre, libraire-imprimeur ruë Neuve ; les freres Duplain, libraires ruë Mercière, MDCL-MDCCLIII [1750-1753]
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Description
Item Description:Volume 2 in two parts, each with a separate dated (1751 and 1753 respectively) title page, pagination, and register.
This work was planned to consist of 6 volumes of which only 2 were completed. Cf. Mennessier de La Lance.
Volume 1: [4], XXX, [4], 515, [1], xliij, [1] pages, [1] folded leaf of plates ; volume 2, pt. 1: [2], LVI, 409, [1], xlix, [5] pages, [1] leaf of plates ; volume 2, pt. 2: vij, [1], 573, xciij, [5] pages.
Signatures: volume 1: ã⁸ ẽ⁸ ĩ⁴( -ĩ4) A-2M⁸; volume 2, pt. 1: pi1 ã⁸ ẽ⁸ ĩ⁸ õ⁴ A-S⁸ T⁴ V-X⁸ Y⁴ Z-2G⁸; volume 2, pt. 2: ã⁴ A-2T⁸.
Title pages printed in red and black.
Head- and tail-pieces; initials.
Shoulder notes.
Includes indexes.
The frontispiece and head-pieces in volume 1 are signed: Delamonce in. et sculp; the plate and head-pieces in volume 2 are signed: Delamonce inv. L. [Louis] le Grand [or Legrand] sculp.
Plate: t.1, fol. 476 "Propostions geometrales du cheval".
Physical Description:2 volumes in 3 : illustrations (engravings) ; 17 cm (octavo)