The compleat horseman: discovering the surest marks of the beauty, goodness, faults and imperfections of horses: the signs and causes of their diseases, the true method both of their preservation and cure: with reflexions on the regular and preposterous use of bleeding and purging
Subtitle: Also the art of shooing [sic], with the several kinds of shooes, adapted to the various defects of bad feet, and the preservation of good. Together with the best method of breeding colts; backing 'em, and making their mouths, etc
By: By the Sieur de Solleysell ... To which is added, a most excellent supplement of riding; collected from the best authors. With an alphabetical catalogue of all the physical simples in English, French, and Latin. By Sir William Hope ... Made English from the eighth edition of the original, and adorn'd with figures
Publisher: Printed for M. Gillyflower; R. Bentley; H. Bonwick; J. Tonson, W. Freeman, T. Goodwin, M. Wotton; J. Walthoe, S. Manship, and R. Parker
Published: 1696
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Horses; Diseases; Horsemanship
Notes: Initial; side notes.

Added illustrated title-pages to first and second parts.

Supplement has title-page imprint: Edinburgh.

Purchased for the Boston Medical Library through the Robert Charles Billings Fund Bake & Co. 1942 Apr. 9 34687.

Autograph of Edw. Finch.

Bound in contemporary speckled calf, covers panelled in blind, red leather label on spine, spine lettered and stamped in gilt.