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THE HORSE -- VEGETIUS RENATUS, Publius. Of the Distempers of Horses, and of the Art of curing them: as also of the Diseases of Oxen. London: A. Millar, 1748. 8° (206 x 117mm). With the final advertisement leaf. (A little spotting at beginning and end.) Contemporary sprinkled calf, panels of spine ruled in gilt (a little rubbed, hinges rather worn). Provenance: William Charles de Meuron, 7th Earl Fitzwilliam (1872-1943, armorial bookplate). FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Huth p.5 (giving the first English edition as 1572 but mistaking Publius for Flavius).
WARD, William. A New Treatise on the Method of Breeding, Breaking, and Training Horses. Edinburgh: J. Dickson, C. Elliot and W. Schaw, 1776. 8° (221 x 130mm). Folding engraved frontispiece by J. Cowan after J. Elliott and 3 folding plates. (Frontispiece a trifle stained and with a short split at one fold, occasional light browning and waterstaining.) 20th-century polished half calf, gilt equine tools in panels of spine, top edges gilt, others uncut (spine faded). FIRST EDITION. Huth p.47; Mellon/Podeschi 62.
BURDON, William. The Gentleman's Pocket-Farrier; shewing, how to use your Horse on a Journey. London: for the Author, 1730. 8° (160 x 88mm). (Fore-margins cut close occasionally affecting pagination and a few side-notes, short tear at head of A2, some browning and spotting.) 20th-century polished calf, brown label on spine (very lightly rubbed). FIRST EDITION. Huth p.30; and 3 similar volumes: Jean de Saunier, A Guide to the Perfect Knowledge of Horses (London, 1769); J. Clark, Observations upon the Shoeing of Horses (Edinburgh, 1775); W. Taplin, The Gentleman's Stable Directory; or Modern System of Farriery (1788). (6)
WARD, William. A New Treatise on the Method of Breeding, Breaking, and Training Horses. Edinburgh: J. Dickson, C. Elliot and W. Schaw, 1776. 8° (221 x 130mm). Folding engraved frontispiece by J. Cowan after J. Elliott and 3 folding plates. (Frontispiece a trifle stained and with a short split at one fold, occasional light browning and waterstaining.) 20th-century polished half calf, gilt equine tools in panels of spine, top edges gilt, others uncut (spine faded). FIRST EDITION. Huth p.47; Mellon/Podeschi 62.
BURDON, William. The Gentleman's Pocket-Farrier; shewing, how to use your Horse on a Journey. London: for the Author, 1730. 8° (160 x 88mm). (Fore-margins cut close occasionally affecting pagination and a few side-notes, short tear at head of A2, some browning and spotting.) 20th-century polished calf, brown label on spine (very lightly rubbed). FIRST EDITION. Huth p.30; and 3 similar volumes: Jean de Saunier, A Guide to the Perfect Knowledge of Horses (London, 1769); J. Clark, Observations upon the Shoeing of Horses (Edinburgh, 1775); W. Taplin, The Gentleman's Stable Directory; or Modern System of Farriery (1788). (6)
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