A new treatise on the diseases of horses:. Wherein what is necessary to The Knowledge of a Horse, the Cure of his Diseases, and other Matters relating to that Subject, are fully discussed, in a plain and easy Manner, from many Years Practice and Experience. With the cheapest and most efficacious Remedies. /. By William Gibson, Surgeon, In Duke-Street, Grosvenor-Square. To which are added, observations and discoveries made upon horses with a new Method of Shoeing. By the sieur La Fosse, Farrier to the King of France. Illustrated with copper-plates. In two volumes. The third edition, corrected.
William Gibson (1680-1750)
Category
Books
Date
1755
Materials
Place of origin
Dublin
Collection
Springhill, County Londonderry
NT 3241872
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v.,plates ;. 8vo. Imperfect: Everyting before B1 missing in v.2. Provenance: Eighteenth-century inscription on front free endpaper v.1.: "Thomas Reilly Bailieborough Co. Cavan" [unidentified]. Eighteenth or early nineteenth-century inscription at head of v.2 Part III: "H.M. Lenox Conyngham" [unidentified]. Binding: Eighteenth-century full calf; spine with five raised bands, title label "Gibson Farrier" (damaged).
Makers and roles
William Gibson (1680-1750) La Fosse, Étienne-Guillaume, -1765