Item #100154 The Gentleman's Stable Directory; or, Modern System of Farriery: Comprehending All the Most Valuable Prescriptions and Approved Remedies [...] To Which is Now Added; a Supplement Containing Practical Observations Upon Thorn Wounds [...]. Two Volumes. William Taplin.

The Gentleman's Stable Directory; or, Modern System of Farriery: Comprehending All the Most Valuable Prescriptions and Approved Remedies [...] To Which is Now Added; a Supplement Containing Practical Observations Upon Thorn Wounds [...]. Two Volumes.

London: G.G. J. and J. Robinson. Original quarter leather boards, b&w frontis portrait plate, pp xxiv, 519; viii, 417 plus ads. First volume stated thirteenth edition, n.d., c. 1790. Second volume stated 'new' edition, "Containing Experimental Remarks upon Breeding, Stabling, Breaking, Exercise and Shoeing, Rowelling to which are added Particular Instructions for the General Management of Hunters and Road Horses", n.d., c. 1790, stamped 1 and 2 on spines. Boards and edges rubbed. Good condition.

Detailed eighteenth century guide to the care of horses. The author was a veterinary surgeon. Item #100154

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