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, Bartlet, 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. [Sold with:] The Gentleman's Stable Directory.

Published by London: Printed for G. Kearsley -91, 1789

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2 vols., first volume ninth edition, second volume first edition, xxiv, 448; viii, 419, [5]ppp., both without half-titles, the second volume has two later inserted plates, volume one rebound in calf calf, volume two with original boards, rebacked. William Taplin (1740?-1807), a noted veterinary surgeon who made many important improvements in his art, was the author of several works on farriery and the treatment of lame horses.

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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, Bartlet, 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. [Sold with:] The Gentleman's Stable Directory.
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TAPLIN (William)
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London: Printed for G. Kearsley -91
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1789
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