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; with a copper-plate and description of the machine. By J. Bartlet, ...
John Bartlet (1716-1772)
Category
Books
Date
1754
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Scotney Castle, Kent
NT 3110515
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxiv,357,[11]p., [3] leaves of plates (1 folding) . ill.., front. . 16mo.. Inscribed medicine recipe on first fly-leaf: "Alternative powders for horses - / Take of crude antimony finely pwder'd ...". Further annotation at rear. Binding: Eighteenth century sprinkled calf, gilt double fillet to form border, sewn onto five raised bands; title gilt on spine label.
Makers and roles
John Bartlet (1716-1772) Henry Bracken (1697-1764) William Gibson (1680-1750) Étienne-Guillaume La Fosse (d.1765)