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The gentleman's stable directory, or, Modern system of farriery : comprehending the present entire improved mode of practice, likewise all the most valuable prescriptions and approved remedies, accurately proportioned and properly adapted to every known disease to which the horse is incident : interspersed with occasional remarks upon the dangerous and almost obsolete practice of Gibson, Bracken, Barlet, Osmer, and others : also directions for feeding, bleeding, purging and getting into condition for the chase, to which are now added useful instructions for buying and selling, with an appendix containing experimental observations upon the management of draft horses, their blemishes and defects ... / by William Taplin.

Author/Creator:
Taplin, William, 1740?-1807.
Publication:
London ; Dublin : William Wilson : And sold by T. White ..., Watson & Co. ... and J. and W. Magee ..., 1789.
Format/Description:
Book
xx, 364 pages ; 19 cm (12mo)
Edition:
The sixth edition, corrected, improved, and considerably enlarged.
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Other Title:
Gentleman's stable directory
Modern system of farriery
Subjects:
Horses.
Horses -- Diseases.
Veterinary medicine -- Early works to 1800.
Veterinary medicine.
Notes:
Signatures: A⁶ a⁴ B-2H⁶ 2I².
With half-title.
Includes index.
Penn Provenance:
Tylor, James (autograph) (Fairman Rogers copy)
Pearson, Leonard (donor) (bookplate) (Fairman Rogers copy)
Penn Chronology:
1789
Cited in:
Fox, C.G. The Fairman Rogers Coll. on the horse and equitation, 752
Contributor:
Fairman Rogers Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
OCLC:
26409049