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Subject Terms Horses -- Diseases -- Treatment -- Early works to 1800.

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1. A general system of horsemanship in all it's [sic] branches : containing a faithful translation of that most noble and useful work of his Grace, William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle, entitled, The manner of feeding, dressing, and training of horses for the great saddle, and fitting them for the service of the field in time of war, or for the exercise and improvement of gentlemen in the Academy at home : a science peculiarly necessary throughout all Europe, and which has hitherto been so much neglected, or discouraged in England, that young gentlemen have been obliged to have recourse to foreign nations for this part of their education : with all the original copper-plates, in number forty-three, which were engrav'd by the best foreign masters, under his Grace's immediate care and inspection, and which are explained in the different lessons : and to give all the improvements that may be, this work is ornamented with head-pieces and initial letters, properly adapted to the subsequent chapters, and enlarged with an index.

A general system of horsemanship in all it's [sic] branches : containing a faithful translation of that most noble and useful work of his Grace, William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle, entitled, The manner of feeding, dressing, and training of horses for the great saddle, and fitting them for the service of the field in time of war, or for the exercise and improvement of gentlemen in the Academy at home : a science peculiarly necessary throughout all Europe, and which has hitherto been so much neglected, or discouraged in England, that young gentlemen have been obliged to have recourse to foreign nations for this part of their education : with all the original copper-plates, in number forty-three, which were engrav'd by the best foreign masters, under his Grace's immediate care and inspection, and which are explained in the different lessons : and to give all the improvements that may be, this work is ornamented with head-pieces and initial letters, properly adapted to the subsequent chapters, and enlarged with an index.
Creator:
Newcastle, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1592–1676
Date:
MDCCXLIII [1743]
Physical Description:
2 v. ([2], viii, [11]-142, [4] p., [84] leaves of plates; [2], 4, [4], 36, 33-138, [14] p., [22] leaves of plates) : ill. (engravings) ; 55cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. An hipponomie or The vineyard of horsemanship : deuided into three bookes. 1. The theorick part, intreating of the inward knowledge of the man. 2. The first practicke part, shewing how to worke according to that knowledge. 3. The second practicke part, declaring how to apply both hunting and running horses to the true grounds of this art. In which is plainly laid open the art of breeding, riding, training and dieting of the said horses. Wherein also many errors in this art, heretofore published, are manifestly detected / by Michaell Baret, practitioner and professor of the same art.

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Creator:
Baret, Michael
Date:
1618
Physical Description:
3 pt. in 1 v. ([20], 48, 51-122, [20], 139, [13], 101, [1], 23, [3] p.) ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Remedies for diseases in horses / approued and allowed by diuers verie auncient learned mareschalles.

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Date:
1583
Physical Description:
[28] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Markhams Remembrancer of unpublished secretes : shewinge howe a man may come to be a general horsman by the knowledge of these seauen offyces : 1. Breeder -- 2. Rider -- 3. Feeder -- 4. Keeper -- 5. Ambler -- 6. Buyer, 7 Farrier / G.M., circa 1655.

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Creator:
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:
circa 1655
Physical Description:
1 v. ([16], 22, [2], 33, [3], 71, [3], 11, [5], 24, [4], 31, [1], 76, [5] p.) ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Feresnámé : a treatise on horses : compiled originally in the Shanskirt language by a society of learned pundits, translated from that into Persian by Abdallah Khan Firoze Jung, and now translated from the latter into English.

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Creator:
Sa-li-ho-tra
Date:
circa 1785
Physical Description:
1 v. ([220] p.) ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The countrey farrier : Teaching divers and sundry approved medicines, to cure all sorts of cattell : as horse, kine, sheepe, hogs, and dogs. With directions how to find, or know, what the disease or infirmity is. Contrived into a little volume, for avoiding the charge of high-prised bookes. Very usefull and necessary for all country-farmers, and housholders; and generally, for all sorts of people / Exactly approved and collected, by the long travels, study, and experience of William Poole.

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Creator:
Poole, William, farrier
Date:
1648
Physical Description:
[8], 24, p. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. The gentleman's farriery, or, A practical treatise, on the diseases of horses : wherein the best writers on that subject have been consulted, and M. La Fosse's method of trepanning glander'd horses is particularly consider'd and improved : also, a new method of nicking horses is recommended ; with a copper-plate and description of the machine / by J. Bartlet, surgeon.

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Creator:
Bartlet, J. (John), 1716?-1772
Date:
MDCCLIV [1754]
Physical Description:
[2], xxiv, 357, [11] pages, [3] leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts