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1. A new treatise on the diseases of horses : wherein what is necessary to the knowledge of a horse, the cure of his diseases, and other matters relating to that subject, are fully discussed, in a plain and easy manner for many years practice and experience : with the cheapest and most efficacious remedies / by William Gibson, surgeon, in Duke-Sreet, Grosvenor-Square ; illustrated with thirty-two copper-plates.

Creator:: Gibson, W. (William), 1680?-1750
Date:: MDCCLI [1751]
Physical Description:: [12], 464, [12] pages, XXXI leaves of plates : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Markhams maister-peece : Contayning all knowledge belonging to the smith, farrier, or horse-leech, touching the curing of all diseases in horses: drawne with great paine, and most approved experience, from the publicke practise of all the forraine horse-marshals in Christendome; and from the private practise of all the best farriers of this kingdome. Being divided into two bookes. The first contayning all cures physicall: the second all belonging to chyrurgery; with an addition of 160. principall chapters, and 370. most excellent medicines, never written of, nor mentioned in any author whatsoever. Together with the true nature, use, and quality of every simple spoken of through the whole worke / Written by Gervase Markham, Gent.

Creator:: Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:: 1636
Physical Description:: [16], 588, 599-601, [15] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The horse-mans honour: or, The beautie of horse-man-ship : As the choise, natures, breeding, breaking, riding, and dieting, whether outlandish or English horses. With the true, easie, cheape, and most approued manner, how to know and cure all diseases in any horse whatsoeuer. Not innented [sic] and drawn from forraigne nations, but by long experience and knowledge of many yeares practise: and now published at the request of diuers honorable and worthy persons, for the generall good of this noble nation of Great Britaine.

Creator:: Morgan, Nicholas, of Crolane
Date:: 1620
Physical Description:: [16], 188, 191-255, 266-288, 288-295, 295-343, 144-145, [1] p. : ill. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Farriery improved, or, A complete treatise on the art of farriery : wherein are fully explained, the nature and structure of that useful creature, a horse : with the diseases and accidents he is liable to : and the methods of cure : exemplified by ten elegant cuts, each the full figure of a horse, describing all the various parts of that noble animal : likewise, rules for breeding and training of colts, practical receipts for the cure of common distempers incident to oxen, cows, calves, sheep, lambs, hogs, &c. : to which is prefixed, ten minutes' advice to the purchasers of horses / by Henry Bracken, M.D.

Creator:: Bracken, Henry, 1697–1764
Date:: Jan. 11, 1798
Physical Description:: iv, [1], 6-144 pages, [10] leaves of plates (8 folded) : illustrations ; 15 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The citizen and countryman's experienced farrier, containing ... : to all which is added, a valuable and fine collection of the surest and best receipts in the known world for the cure of all maladies and distempers that are incident to horses of what kind soever, with directions to know what is the ailment or disease / by J. Markham, G. Jefferies, and discreet Indians.

Creator:: Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:: MDCCXCVII [1797]
Physical Description:: viii, 9-317, [1] pages : illustrations ; 17 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. 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.

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

7. Cauelarice, or The English horseman : contayning all the arte of horse-manship, as much as is necessary for any man to vnderstand, whether he be horse-breeder, horse-ryder, horse-hunter, horse-runner, horse-ambler, horse-farrier, horse-keeper, coachman, smith, or sadler. Together, with the discouery of the subtill trade or mistery of horse-coursers, & an explanatio[n] of the excellency of a horses vndersta[n]ding, or how to teach them to doe trickes like Bankes his curtall: and that horses may be made to drawe drie-foot like a hound. Secrets before vnpublished, & now carefully set down for the profit of this whole nation / by Geruase Markham.

Creator:: Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:: 1607
Physical Description:: [16], 88, [4], 212, 233-264, [4], 67, 58-72, [4], 54, [4], 56, [4], 64, [4], 11, 10-81, [5], 20, 25-40 p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. The gentleman's recreations : in three parts : the first part contains a short and easie introduction to all the liberal arts and sciences, &c. : the second treats of horsemanship, hawking, hunting, fowling, fishing, agriculture, &c. : done from the most authentick authors, especially several lately printed at Paris, as may be seen in the preface; with great enlargements, made by those well experienced in the respective recreations. : the third is a complete body of all our forest, chace, and game-laws, as they are at this time. : the whole illustrated with near an hundred copper-cuts relating to the several subjects, particularly all sorts of nets, engines, traps, &c. are added for the taking of wild beasts, fowl, fish, &c. not hitherto publish'd by any.

Creator:: Blome, Richard, 1635–1705
Date:: 1709-1710
Physical Description:: 3 v. in 1 : ill. ; 41 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

10. The Gentleman's jocky and approved farrier : instructing, in the natures, causes, and cures of all diseases incident to horses. With an exact and easie method of breeding, buying, dieting and otherwise ordering all sorts of horses, as well for common and ordinary use; as the heats and course. With divers other curiosities / collected by the long practice, experience and pains of J.H. Esquire; T.D. N.S. R.B. J.W. and others.

Creator:: Halfpenny, John, active 1671
Date:: 1671
Physical Description:: [16], 300, [4] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 17 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Every man his own farrier : being a collection of valuable and efficacious receipts, for most disorders incident to horses, carefully collected and applied with repeated success, for upwards of fifty years past / by Sir Paulet St. John, Bart., of Farley, Hants.

Creator:: St. John, Paulet, Sir, 1704–1780
Date:: 1780
Physical Description:: viii, 80, [8] p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. The gentleman farrier's repository, of elegant and approved remedies for the diseases of horses; : in two books. Containing, I. The surgical; II. The medical part of practical farriery; also, directions for the proper treatment of post chaise and other horses, after violent exercise. : With suitable remarks on the whole. : To which are now added; observations on broken-winded horses, endeavouring to prove the seat of that malady not to be in the lungs. : [Three lines from Ovid] / By J. Bartlet, surgeon.

Creator:: Bartlet, J. (John), 1716?-1772
Date:: M,DCC,LXXV. [1775]
Physical Description:: xii, 293, [3] pages ; 17 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Markham's master-piece revived : containing all knowledge belonging to the smith, farrier, or horse-leach, touching the curing all diseases, in horses. Drawn with great pains from approved experience, and the publick practice of the best horse-marshals in Christendom. Divided into two books. The I. containing cures physical; the II. all cures chirurgical: together with the nature, use and quality of every simple mentioned through the whole work. Now the fourteenth time printed, corrected and augmented with above thirty new chapters, and forty new medicines heretofore never publish'd. To which is added by way of appendix, The countrey-man's care for his other cattle, containing the exactest receipts for curing all diseases in oxen, cows, sheep, hogs, goats, and all smaller cattel, with many new additions. And now in this impression is added The compleat jockey; containing methods for the training of horses up for racing; with their heats and courses, and manner of keeping, &c. Also instructions to the buyers, to avoid cheating horse-coursers; and all things necessary for gentlemen, and others. Never before made publick.

Creator:: Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:: 1688
Physical Description:: [16], 80 p., pp. 79-394, [2], 26, 49, [3] p. : ill. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. 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.

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

15. The fower chiefest offices belonging to horsemanshippe : that is to say, the office of the breeder, of the rider, of the keeper, and of the ferrer. In the first parte wherof is declared the order of breeding of horses. In the seconde howe to breake them, and to make them horses of seruice. Conteyninge the whole art of ryding latelye set foorth, and nowe newelye corrected and amended of manye faultes escaped in the fyrst printing, as well touchyng the byttes as otherwyse. Thirdely, howe to dyet them, aswell when they reste as when they traueyle by the way. Fourthly, to what diseases they be subiecte togither with the causes of such diseases, the sygnes howe to knowe them, and finally howe to cure the same. which bookes are not onely painefully collected out of a number of aucthours, but also orderly dysposed and applyed to the vse of thys oure countrey / By Tho. Blundeuill of Newton Flotman in Norff.

Creator:: Blundeville, Thomas, active 1561
Date:: [1570?]
Physical Description:: [5], 23, [2], 24-25, [4], 58, [29], 24, [5], 93, [1] leaves : ill. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Liber equorum and De la generatione deli oselli de rapina.

Date:: between 1400 and 1450
Physical Description:: 1 volume (ff. i + 60 + iii) : parchment ; 255 x 174 mm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Georgii Simonis Winteri, Hippiater expertus, seu Medicina equorum absolutissima, tribus libris comprehensa : quorum I. Agit de equorum temperamentis; aetate cognoscendâ; morbis omnibus internis capitis; oculorum; aurium; narium; linguae; dentium; oris; aliisq́ue his similibus: II. De affectibus internis thoracis & abdominis nempe pulmonum & cordis; itemq́ue hepatis; lienis; ventriculi; intestinorum; renum; vesicae; nec non de purgatione equorum & pabulatione per gramen; de clysteribus; suppositoriis; de febribus & de peste. III. De omnis generis unguentis; oleis; balsamis & emplastris in genere; item de quibuscunque morbis ac symptomatibus externis; ut: tumoribus, ulceribus & vulneribus cujuscunque generis; ungularum etiam vitiis; fracturâ & luxatione ossium; medicamentorum ad horum morborum curationem necessariorum variis formulis; de venae sectione; de affectibus nervorum &c. Non minus ex probatissimis authoribus congesta, quàm propriâ multorum annorum experientiâ longâq́[ue] praxi stabilita, & multis figuris aeneis elegantissimis, remq́[ue] ipsam miro artificio clarissimè ob oculos ponentibus exornata, & in gratiam exterarum quoque gentium ex vernacula in Latinam translata, nuncq́[ue] primùm typis exscripta.

Creator:: Winter, Georg Simon, b. ca. 1634
Date:: Anno MDCLXXVIII [1678]
Physical Description:: [16], 490, [10] p. : ill., port. ; 34 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. 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.

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

19. The country-man's jewel: or, The jockey's master-piece : Part I contains plain and approv'd rules to choose, feed, and breed the best stallions, horses mares, or geldings. How to order and feed a race-horse. Also how to know a sound horse or mare from one that is distemper'd. With a collection of two hundred choice and approv'd receipts to cure all distempers, and different diseases in horses and mares. The like never before published. Part II prescribes cures for all distempers in black and white cattle; as horses, oxen, bulls, cows, calves goats, mules, asses, sheep, hogs, dogs, deer, hares, and conies. Also to destroy vermin. With directions for improving land to great advantage. To cure the biting of a mad dog / by M.S. [i.e. A.S.?] gent., L.M. J. Lambert, and others.

Date:: [ca. 1690?]
Physical Description:: 118, [2] p. : ill. ; 16 cm (12mo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. 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 / By Thomas de Gray Esquire.

Creator:: De Grey, Thomas
Date:: 1639
Physical Description:: [32], 356, [8] p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. 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.

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

22. The experienced jocky, Compleat horseman; or Gentlemans delight : containing plain and easie directions in breeding, feeding, keeping and managing horses for all occasions, as war, raccing [sic], hunting, travel, &c. Directions for the buyer to prevent cheats: rules whereby to know the state of horses bodies, together with approved remedies, or unquestionable cures, for all internal and external distempers and grievances incident to them. Also the nature of simples, manner of making unguents, salves, poltisses, drenches, cordials, and whatever is requisite in physical, or chirurgical operation. Likewise, the art of shooing, bloodletting, roweling, the artifices, devices and cheats of the jockies, &c. To which are added, plain and easie directions for the breeding, feeding, managing and curing distempers in bulls, cows, calves, oxen, sheep and swine; useful and necessary for all persons who expect pleasure or profit by any of the forementioned animals. The like before not extant.

Date:: 1684
Physical Description:: [24], 333, [3] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Dell'anotomia et dell'infirmità del cauallo / di Carlo Ruini senatore Bolognese.

Creator:: Ruini, Carlo, d. 1598
Date:: MDXCVIII [1598]
Physical Description:: 2 pt. in 1 v. ([36], 295, [5], 386, [30] p.) : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. The experienc'd farrier : or Farring compleated ; containing every thing that belongs to a compleat horseman, groom, farrier or horseleach ... / By E.R. Gent.

Date:: 1720
Physical Description:: [4], 499, [29] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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Subject Terms Veterinary medicine -- Early works to 1800.

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

11. Every man his own farrier : being a collection of valuable and efficacious receipts, for most disorders incident to horses, carefully collected and applied with repeated success, for upwards of fifty years past / by Sir Paulet St. John, Bart., of Farley, Hants.

14. 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.

16. Liber equorum and De la generatione deli oselli de rapina.

18. 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.

23. Dell'anotomia et dell'infirmità del cauallo / di Carlo Ruini senatore Bolognese.

24. The experienc'd farrier : or Farring compleated ; containing every thing that belongs to a compleat horseman, groom, farrier or horseleach ... / By E.R. Gent.

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

11. Every man his own farrier : being a collection of valuable and efficacious receipts, for most disorders incident to horses, carefully collected and applied with repeated success, for upwards of fifty years past / by Sir Paulet St. John, Bart., of Farley, Hants.

14. 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.

16. Liber equorum and De la generatione deli oselli de rapina.

18. 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.

23. Dell'anotomia et dell'infirmità del cauallo / di Carlo Ruini senatore Bolognese.

24. The experienc'd farrier : or Farring compleated ; containing every thing that belongs to a compleat horseman, groom, farrier or horseleach ... / By E.R. Gent.