The compleat horse-man, and expert ferrier : in two bookes : the first, shewing the best manner of breeding good horses, with their choice, nature, riding and dieting, as well for running as hunting, and how the rider ought to behave himselfe in the breaking and riding of colts; as also teaching the groome and keeper his true office, touching the horses and colts committed to his charge; and prescribing the best maner how a perfect stable ought to be scituated and made, not heretofore so fully described by any : the second, directing the most exact and approved maner how to know and cure all maladies and diseases in horses : a worke containign the secrets and best skill belonging either to ferrier or horse-leach : the cures places alphabetically; with hundreds of medicines never before imprinted in any authour : published at the earnest request of sundry noble and worth gentlemen, for the generall good and benefit of the nation / by Thomas de Grey, Esquire.

First edition of this work on equine medicine and farriery.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: De Grey, Thomas (Author)
Corporate Author: Etherington Conservation Center, Inc., (Firm) (Conservator)
Other Authors: Fussell, Nicholas, approximately 1600-approximately 1660 (Bookseller)
Harper, Thomas, -1656 (Bookseller)
Stent, Peter, -1665
Language:English
Published: London : Printed for Thomas Harper and Nicholas Fussell, 1651.
Edition:The second edition corrected, with some additions.
Subjects:
Horses > Early works to 1800.
Horses > Diseases > Early works to 1800.
Veterinary medicine > Early works to 1800.
Inscriptions (Provenance) > England > 17th century.
Inscriptions (Provenance) > 19th century.
Marginalia (Provenance) > England > 17th century.
MSU: Insertions (Provenance)
Genre:
Early works to 1800.
Inscriptions (Provenance)
Marginalia (Provenance)
MSU: Insertions (Provenance)
Ownership and Custodial History:
Inscription inside upper board: "Brett Netter, March the 19th 1689/90" (this may be the same Brett Netter found in some records of Aldenham, Hertfordshire, from the 1640s); inscription on first front fly-leaf recto: "S.H. Drage, July 17th 1890, with W. Manningsons [sic] best wishes"; marginalia and other notes in Netter's hand on leaves C2v, T31r, 2H1v, 3Y3r, 4R3v, 4S1r; ghosting from a now-lost medieval fragment on first rear fly-leaf recto; hole driven through upper board, through text block, and out through rear board (both boards patched with calf); another hole driven through rear board clear through leaf 4A1; documents related to conservation of item by Etherington Conservation Services in Septebmer of 2011 now available in MSS 466 box 3 folder 256.
Local Note:
MSU: Conservation 2011, Etherington Conservation Services, Greensboro, NC.
Binding Information:
In contemporary full calf, rebacked in newer calf, with old spine laid over; boards and spine tooled in blind; modern red leather spine label, with lettering in gilt; red, speckled edges.
Physical Description:32 unnumbered pages, 274, 267-631 pages, 13 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm (quarto)
Format: Book

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