![[BRACKEN, Henry (1607-1764)]. Ten minutes advice to every gentleman going to purchase a horse out of a dealer, jockey, or groom's stables. London: J. Bell and C. Etherington at York, 1774. Half-sheet 12° (132 x 76mm). Engraved frontispiece of a horse and rider after B. Reading. Contemporary marbled paper wrappers (lightly worn at spine).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2012/CSK/2012_CSK_04354_0138_000(bracken_henry_ten_minutes_advice_to_every_gentleman_going_to_purchase111938).jpg?w=1)
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[BRACKEN, Henry (1607-1764)]. Ten minutes advice to every gentleman going to purchase a horse out of a dealer, jockey, or groom's stables. London: J. Bell and C. Etherington at York, 1774. Half-sheet 12° (132 x 76mm). Engraved frontispiece of a horse and rider after B. Reading. Contemporary marbled paper wrappers (lightly worn at spine).
RARE FIRST EDITION: one of only 3 copies known, in fine, original condition. A medical doctor and student of Boerhaave at Leiden, Bracken's Farriery Improved was a best-selling work. Almost as popular was the posthumously-published Ten Minutes Advice, a handy guide to buying a horse to 'guard the unwary from deceptions in the purchase'. ESTC records two copies at Oxford and the Royal Veterinary College. Not in Huth.
RARE FIRST EDITION: one of only 3 copies known, in fine, original condition. A medical doctor and student of Boerhaave at Leiden, Bracken's Farriery Improved was a best-selling work. Almost as popular was the posthumously-published Ten Minutes Advice, a handy guide to buying a horse to 'guard the unwary from deceptions in the purchase'. ESTC records two copies at Oxford and the Royal Veterinary College. Not in Huth.