Author: GIBSON, William.
Title: A new treatise on the diseases of horses: wherein what is necessary to the knowledge of a horse, the cure of his siseases, and other matters relating to that subject, are fully discussed … with the cheapest and most efficacious remedies.London, for A. Millar, 1751. Large 4to. With an engraved frontispiece of a perfect stallion and 31 numbered engraved plates of skulls, bones, legs, intestines, bloodstreams, ulcers, swellings and other diseases. 20th-century half calf.
Description: [12], 464, [12] pp.First edition of this useful veterinarian work on the diseases of horses and their treatment.William Gibson (1680?-1750) was a veterinarian surgeon in the army. He published a number of books on the subject in the ’20. On retirement, after 1732, Gibson established a business from where he looked after the horses of the House Grenadiers and the Guards as well as those of fashionable gentlemen. With the bookplate of Billmyer-Conant on the front paste-down and another ownership's inscription on the recto of the frontispiece. Frontispiece injured with the upper part strengthened, some soiling (especially on the title-page), an a few wormholes in the first ca. 50 pages. Otherwise in good condition.l ESTC T94737; Great books on horsemanship, no. 274; Huth, Works on horses, 34; Smith, Early hist. Veter. Lit., II, 11; Podeschi, Books on the horse, 51.

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