The gentleman's farriery, or, A practical treatise on the diseases of horses : wherein the best writers on that subject have been consulted, and M. La Fosse's method of trepanning glander'd horses is particularly consider'd and improved : also a new method of nicking horses is recommended ... : to which is added an appendix, treating, 1. Of particular disorders of the feet; 2. Observations on shoeing horses ..

Alternate Title:

Gentleman's farriery; Practical treatise on the diseases of horses

Name:

Bartlet, J. (John), 1716?-1772; La Fosse, Étienne-Guillaume, -1765

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1759

Language:

English

Publisher:

Printed for John Nourse ..., Thomas Pote ..., and Joseph Pote ..

Subject:

Horses -- Diseases; Horses -- Early works to 1800; Horses; Veterinary medicine -- Early works to 1800; Veterinary medicine

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

books

Physical Description:

xxvi, that is, xxviii, 370 pages, 8 unnumbered pages, 6 leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations; 18 cm (4to)

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Signatures: A⁸ b⁶ B-2A⁸ 2B⁶(-2B6).; The original leaf b4 has been cancelled, and a fold of two leaves, paged xxiii-xxvi (p. [xxv] blank) inserted after p. xxii. An addition was probably made to the preface.; With side- and shoulder-notes.; Includes index.; The first edition appeared in 1753. Cf. Sir Frederick Smith, The early hist. of veterinary literature, v. 2, p. 72.; P. E. Lafosse's method of trepanning glandered horses (described on p. 114-132) is set forth in his Traité sur le véritable siége de la morve des chevaux, et les moyens d'y remédier, Paris, 1749. Bartlet's appendix (p. 342-370) is apparently an abstract of Lafosse's Observations et découvertes faites sur des chevaux, avec une nouvelle pratique sur la ferrure, Paris, 1754. The plates are copies of those in that work.; Fairman Rogers copy: Imperfect: frontispiece and t.p. mended with no loss of text.; Fairman Rogers copy: Imperfect: p. [7]-[8] at end, wanting.

Physical Location:

LIBRA, Fairman Rogers Collection, 619.15 B278 1759

Collection:

Fairman Rogers Collection (University of Pennsylvania)