A new treatise on the diseases of horses: wherein what is necessary to the knowledge of a horse, the cure of his siseases, and other matters relating to that subject, are fully discussed with the cheapest and most efficacious remedies.London, for A. Millar, 1751. Large 4to. With an engraved frontispiece of a perfect stallion and 31 numbered engraved plates of skulls, bones, legs, intestines, bloodstreams, ulcers, swellings and other diseases. 20th-century half calf.
by GIBSON, William
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[12], 464, [12] pp.First edition of this useful veterinarian work on the diseases of horses and their treatment.William Gibson (1680?-1750) was a veterinarian surgeon in the army. He published a number of books on the subject in the 20. On retirement, after 1732, Gibson established a business from where he looked after the horses of the House Grenadiers and the Guards as well as those of fashionable gentlemen. With the bookplate of Billmyer-Conant on the front paste-down and another ownership's inscription on the recto of the frontispiece. Frontispiece injured with the upper part strengthened, some soiling (especially on the title-page), an a few wormholes in the first ca. 50 pages. Otherwise in good condition.l ESTC T94737; Great books on horsemanship, no. 274; Huth, Works on horses, 34; Smith, Early hist. Veter. Lit., II, 11; Podeschi, Books on the horse, 51.
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- A new treatise on the diseases of horses: wherein what is necessary to the knowledge of a horse, the cure of his siseases, and other matters relating to that subject, are fully discussed with the cheapest and most efficacious remedies.London, for A. Millar, 1751. Large 4to. With an engraved frontispiece of a perfect stallion and 31 numbered engraved plates of skulls, bones, legs, intestines, bloodstreams, ulcers, swellings and other diseases. 20th-century half calf.
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