The parfait mareschal, or Compleat farrier : Which teacheth, I. To know the shapes and goodness, as well as faults and imperfections of horses. II. The signs and causes of their diseases, the means to prevent them, their cure, and the good or bad use of purging and bleeding. III. The way to order and preserve them, when upon travel, to feed, and to dress them. IV. The art of shoeing, according to a new design of shoes, which will recover bad feet, and preserve the good. Together with a treatise, how to raise and bring up a true and beautiful race of horses: as also instructions, whereby to fit all kinds of horses with proper bits, whereof the chief draughts are represented in copper-plates. / Written originally in French by the Sieur de Solleysel Escuyer, sometime one of the overseers of the French Kings Royal Academy of Riding, near to the Hostel de Conde in Paris. And translated from the last Paris impression, by Sir William Hope of Kirkliston Kt. Lieutenat Governour of the Castle of Edinburgh. By whom is also added as a supplement to the first part, a most compendious and excellent collection of horsemanship, taken from the best and most modern writers upon that subject, such as Mr. De la Brow, Pluvinel, and the Great Duke of Newcastle. Part I.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Parfait mareschal. English. 1696
Early English books online.
Main Author: Solleysel, Jacques de, 1617-1680
Other Authors: Hope, William, Sir
Language:English
Language of the Original:
French
Published: Edinburgh : Printed by George Mosman, M.DC.XCVI. [i.e. 1696]
Series:Early English books online.
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Physical Description:1 online resource 52 unnumbered pages, 261 pages, 5 unnumbered pages, 86 pages, 18 unnumbered pages, 300 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 8 leaves of plates (six folded) : illustrations
Variant Title:
Compleat farrier
Compleat horseman [Running title]
Format: Electronic eBook

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