de Grey, Thomas. - The Compleat Horse-Man and Expert Ferrier. In Two Books. The First, Shewing the Best Manner of Breeding Good Horses, with Their Choice, Nature, Riding and Dieting, As Well for Running As Hunting, and How the Rider Ought to Behave Himself in the Breaking and Riding of Colts... The Second, Directing the Most Exact and Approved Manner How to Know and Cure All Maladies and Diseases in Horses: A Work Containing the Secrets and Best Skill Belonging Either to Ferrier or Horse-Leach: The Cures Placed Alphabetically; with Hundreds of Medicines Never Before Imprinted in Any Authour. The Third Edition Corrected with Some Additions.

London: printed by J.L. for Humphrey Moseley, 1656. 1656. - Small quarto, 7-1/4 inches high by 5-1/2 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in full contemporary brown calf. The leather covers are rubbed & scuffed with pieces chipped from the head & tail of the spine. Pages [i-xxxii], 1-274, 267-424, 427-482, 493-631, and [1-13]. Misnumbered but textually complete, with decorative head pieces & engraved initials and a full-page botanical illustration on page 313. Lacks the frontispiece, which is somewhat common with this book. There is some occasional minor foxing with some occasional staining. The front edges of the first few leaves are darkened & slightly chipped and there is a tiny piece out from the bottom edge of one leaf. The text block is cracking and a few signatures (i.e. group of pages) are lightly pulled. Good. Third edition. Good .

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