The Art of Farriery Both in Theory and Practice, Containing the Causes, Symptoms, and Cure of all Diseases incident to Horses... by Reeves, John - 1771

Third edition. 8vo. Full contemporary leather. [viii] 416pp with one folding and three full page plates. Owner's name handwritten on front free end paper. Front and back hinges starting. Leather rubbed in places.The sub title continues; ...the Various Disorders of these useful Animals. As Also Many Rules relating to the Choice and Management of Horses of all Kinds, and useful Directions how to avoid being imposed upon by Jockies. Wherein some egregious Errors of Former Writers are occasionally pointed out / By JOHN REEVES, Farrier st Ringwood, Hants. The the whole Revised, Corrected and Enlarged by a Physician, to which is added, A New Method of curing a STRAIN in the Back Sinews, and the ANATOMY of a Horse's Leg, with some observations on SHOEING, Also an Appendix, containing some necessary Observations on the late epidemical Distemper among Horses, and a Method of Cure by an EMINENT SURGEON.Handwritten notes and recipes/remedies to front and rear endpapers and eight small hand written sheets of… Read More

London: Carnan and Newbery, Stanley Crowder, and B. Collins, 1771. Third edition. Full Calf. Very Good. 8vo. 20 by 13 cm. [6], 416 pp. With five engraved plates, two of which are folding. Contemporary speckled calf. Rebacked, with most of spine laid on. Rubbing along joints, and a few small abraded losses to surface of leather. Generally clean within.