The compleat horseman: discovering the surest marks of the beauty, goodness, faults, and imperfections of horses: the signs and causes of their diseases, the true method both of their preservation and cure: with reflexions on the regular and preposterous use of bleeding and purging. Also the art of shooing, with the several kinds of shooes, adapted to the various defects of bad feet, and the preservation of good. Together with the best method of breeding colts; backing 'em, and making their mouths, &c. By the Sieur de Solleysell, Querry to the present French king for his great horses, and one of the Royal Academy of Paris. To which is added, a most excellent supplement of riding; collected from the best authors. With an alphabetical catalogue of all the physical simples in English, French, and Latin. By Sir William Hope, Kt. Deputy-Lieutenant of the castle of Edinburgh. Made English from the eighth edition of the original, and adorn'd with figures.
Jacques Labessie de Solleysel (1617-1680)
Category
Books
Date
1696
Materials
Measurements
308 x 203 x 57 mm
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3007626
Summary
Bibliographic description
[36], 261, [1]; [4], 86, [18]; [16], 300, [4] p., [3], 6 leaves of plates (6 folded) : ill., port. ; fol. Running number: 5849. Signatures: *-9*2 A-Z2 Aa-Zz2 Aaa-Ttt2 chi1; ²pi2 A-Y2, Uuu-Zzz2; a-c2 d2(-d2) (*)1 B-Z4 Aa-Pp4 Qq-Rr2. Table of contents of part 2 on sigs. a-c2 d1 bound between engraved title page for part 2 and leaf (*), not at end of part 1 as called for by ESTC. With an additional leaf signed (*) not noted by ESTC, containing "An advertisement by the publisher" which explains that the second part is also called the first part due to two translators working from the original manuscript from different directions; their efforts were combined for this impression. Provenance: manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]; with Mitchell's manuscript code at foot of leaf: "ια½" [i.e. iota alpha ½ = Greek number 11½]. Manuscript code at head of front fly-leaf: "Sd/c". Binding: seventeenth-century sprinkled calf (rubbed, very worn; hinge on front board cracked; lower board detached; spine cracked); blind double fillet border. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Jacques Labessie de Solleysel (1617-1680), author Sir William Hope, author