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C., L.W. A verie Perfect Discourse, and Order how to know the Age of a Horse, and the Diseases that breede in him, with the Remedies to cure the same. London: W.W. for Thomas Pavier, 1602.
4° (182 x 123mm). Woodcut device on title, full-page illustration on the verso showing the horse and its parts, with the final blank. (Lower margin of E1 cut away with no damage to text, lightly soiled and waterstained throughout.) Early 20th-century red morocco, top edges gilt.
THE RARE SECOND EDITION -- the first appeared in the previous year -- of this popular veterinary work on equine diseases and their cures with two preliminary chapters on bloodletting and on how to tell the age of a horse. Another five editions were to appear by 1630; all are very scarce. NOT IN BL. STC 4287 (Jesus College Cambridge and Trinity College Dublin only).
4° (182 x 123mm). Woodcut device on title, full-page illustration on the verso showing the horse and its parts, with the final blank. (Lower margin of E1 cut away with no damage to text, lightly soiled and waterstained throughout.) Early 20th-century red morocco, top edges gilt.
THE RARE SECOND EDITION -- the first appeared in the previous year -- of this popular veterinary work on equine diseases and their cures with two preliminary chapters on bloodletting and on how to tell the age of a horse. Another five editions were to appear by 1630; all are very scarce. NOT IN BL. STC 4287 (Jesus College Cambridge and Trinity College Dublin only).
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