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• Horsemanship -- Early works to 1800
• Horses -- Training -- Early works to 1800
• Early works to 1800

• Kleine Reitschule. (Kanter, 1940), by Johann Elias Ridinger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trattato dell'imbrigliare, maneggiare, et ferrare cavalli : diviso in tre parti, con alcvni discorsi sopra la natura di caualli, con disegni di briglie, maneggi, & di caualieri a cauallo, & de ferri d'esso (Per Anselmo Giaccarelli, 1556), by Cesare Fiaschi and Giovanni De Sommain (page images at HathiTrust)
• École de cavalerie : contenant la connoissance, l'instruction, et la conservation du cheval : avec figures en taille-douce (Chez Huart et Moreau fils ... [and 5 others], 1751), by François Robichon de La Guérinière, Pierre-Alexandre Aveline, Nicolas Henri Tardieu, Laurent Cars, Jacques-Philippe Le Bas, Benoit Audran, and Charles Parrocel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Science de la cauallerie (Ché Ignace Dominique Voigt ..., 1717), by Alfonsus Guerini de Preville and Ignace Dominique Voigt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ecole de cavalerie : contenant la connoissance, l'instruction, et la conservation du cheval (Par la compagnie, 1756), by François Robichon de La Guérinière, Benoit Audran, Simon Henri Thomassin, Guillaume d' Heulland, and Charles Parrocel (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Ladies on horseback : learning, park-riding, and hunting, with hints upon costume, and numerous anecdotes (W.H. Allen & Co., 1881), by Nannie Power O'Donoghue (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dressage du cheval. La méthode Rarey mise à la portée de tous. (Journal des haras, 1858), by R. M. (page images at HathiTrust)
• Méthode dé̀quitation basée sur de nouveaux principes augmentée de documents inédits; de rapports officiels en faveur de làpplication de la méthode aux chevaux de troupes. (Librairie militaire de J. Dumaine, 1850), by François Baucher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trattato dell'imbrigliare, maneggiare, et ferrare cavalli : diviso in tre parti, con alcvni discorsi sopra la natura di caualli, con disegni di briglie, maneggi, & di caualieri a cauallo, & de ferri d'esso (Per Anselmo Giaccarelli, 1556), by Cesare Fiaschi and Giovanni De Sommain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Principes de dressage et d'équitation (Marpon et Flammarion, 1891), by James Fillis and John A. Seaverns Equine Collection (Tufts University) (page images at HathiTrust)
• École de cavalerie : contenant la connoissance, l'instruction, et la conservation du cheval : avec figures en taille-douce (Chez Huart et Moreau fils ... [and 5 others], 1751), by François Robichon de La Guérinière, Pierre-Alexandre Aveline, Nicolas Henri Tardieu, Laurent Cars, Jacques-Philippe Le Bas, Benoit Audran, and Charles Parrocel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Principes pour monter et dresser les chevaux de guerre : formant le 3e volume de l'ouvrage (Anselin et Pochard (successeurs de Magimel), libraires pour l'art militaire, rue Dauphine, no 9, 1821), by François Philippe Loubat Bohan and Anselin et Pochard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The trotting horse of America: how to train and drive him, with reminiscences of the trotting turf. (Porter & Coates, 1875), by Hiram Washington Woodruff and Charles James Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anīqat al-Ramaʹ. (1206 [1791], 1791), by Mīr Aḥmad 'Alī ibn Mīr 'Alām 'Alī (page images at HathiTrust)
• Méthode d'équitation basée sur de nouveaux principes (in French), by François Baucher (Gutenberg ebook)
• New Method of Horsemanship: Including the Breaking and Training of Horses, with Instructions for Obtaining a Good Seat., by François Baucher (Gutenberg ebook)

• Kleine Reitschule. (Kanter, 1940), by Johann Elias Ridinger (page images at HathiTrust)

• The horse educator (s.n., 1882), by J. G. McPherson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The horse's friend the only practical method of educating the horse and eradicating vicious habits, followed by a variety of valuable recipes, instructions in farriery, horse-shoking, the latest rules of trotting, and the record of fast horses up to 1876 (Hunter, Rose, 1876), by O. S. Pratt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gleason's veterinary hand-book and system of horse taming in two parts (J.S. Brown, 1889), by Oliver W. Gleason (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le Cheval manière de le dompter, suivi de l'élevage du cheval, des soins à lui donner, avec un grand nombre de recettes sur les différentes maladies des chevaux. (s.n., 1800) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The horse a treatise on the education and management of horses, to which is added their diseases and remedies; also, a treatise on the management of cattle and dogs, &c. (s.n.], 1868), by E. R. Graves and H. Prudden (page images at HathiTrust)
• A new theory of taming wild horses (Published by the author, 1858), by Author (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Arabian art of taming and training wild & vicious horses ([Pri]nted for the publisher, 1857), by Patrick O'Connor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Horse educating (s.n., 1899), by M. McGregor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Saddle horse, The American (Louisville, Ky. : Printed and distributed by the Standard Printing Company, 1933., 1933), by Earl R. Farshler (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Farmer's friend containing Rarey's horse secret, with other valuable receipts and information. (Porter and Schneider, 1858) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Dog (G.E. Woodward, 1873), by Edward Mayhew, Henry William Herbert, and Dinks (page images at HathiTrust)
• The complete open obedience course. (Howell Book House, 1961), by Blanche Saunders (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Parfait Mareschal, or Compleat Farrier (Edinburgh: Printed by G. Mosman, 1696), by Jacques de Solleysel, trans. by William Hope (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The compleat horseman (Houghton-Mifflin, 1614), by Gervase Markham and Daniel Peri Lucid (page images at HathiTrust)
• Georg Engelhard von Löhneisen, Erb-Herrn in Remmlingen und Neuendorff ... Neu-eröffnete Hof-Kriegs- und Reit-Schül : das ist, Gründlicher Bericht della cavalleria, oder von allen was zur Reuterey gehörig und einer Cavalier davon zu wissen gebühret : nach den ersten Titul dieses überaus rarwordenen Buches, welches aber anjetzo in einen gantz andern Stand gesetzet, verneuert, und mit ausfürlichen schönen Noten, auch gantzen Capitelnvermehret und verbessert worden ... (In Verlegung Paul Lochners, Buchhändlers, 1729), by Georg Engelhard von Löhneyss, Valentin Trichter, Engelhard Nunzer, and Andreas Nunzer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ordini di caualcare : et modi di conoscere le nature de' caualli, emendare i uitii loro, et ammaestrargli per l'uso della guerra & commodità de gli huomini (Appresso Vincenzo Valgrisi ..., 1552), by Federico Grisone (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trattato dell'imbrigliare, maneggiare, et ferrare cavalli : diviso in tre parti, con alcvni discorsi sopra la natura di caualli, con disegni di briglie, maneggi, & di caualieri a cauallo, & de ferri d'esso (Per Anselmo Giaccarelli, 1556), by Cesare Fiaschi and Giovanni De Sommain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Luz da liberal, e nobre arte da cavallaria : offerecida ao Senhor D. João, principe do Brazil (Na Regia Officina Typografica, 1790), by Manoel Carlos de Andrade, Joachim Carneiro da Silva, Manuel Alegre, Gaspar Fróis Machado, and Portugal. Impressão Régia (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cheape and good husbandry (London : Printed by T[homas]. B[raddyll]. for Hannah Sawbridge, at the Bible on Ludgate-Hill, MDCLXXXIII [1683], 1683), by Gervase Markham, Dean Sage, Thomas Braddyll, and H. Sawbridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Compleat horseman : or, perfect farrier (Printed by F.B. for R. Bonwick , 1717), by Jacques de Solleysel, William Hope, and John A. Seaverns Equine Collection (Tufts University) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A new system of horsemanship (Printed by Henry Woodfall, for Paul Vaillant ..., 1754), by Claude Bourgelat, Richard Berenger, and John A. Seaverns Equine Collection (Tufts University) (page images at HathiTrust)
• École de cavalerie : contenant la connoissance, l'instruction, et la conservation du cheval : avec figures en taille-douce (Chez Huart et Moreau fils ... [and 5 others], 1751), by François Robichon de La Guérinière, Pierre-Alexandre Aveline, Nicolas Henri Tardieu, Laurent Cars, Jacques-Philippe Le Bas, Benoit Audran, and Charles Parrocel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ecuirie du S. Federic Grison, gentilhomme napolitain (Chez Guillaume Auuray ..., 1575), by Federico Grisone (page images at HathiTrust)
• Perfette regole, et modi di cavalcare (Appresso Barezeo Barezzi. Ad istanza di Paolo Frambotto libraro in Padoua, 1625), by Lorenzino Palmieri (page images at HathiTrust)
• Arte del cavallo di Nicola, e Luigi Santa Paulina (Nella stamperia del Seminario, 1696), by Nicola Santa Paulina, Louis Dorigny, Josef Juster, Luigi Santa Paulina, and Tipografia del Seminario di Padova (page images at HathiTrust)
• La connoissance parfaite des chevaux : contenant la maniere de les gouverner & de les conserver en sante,́ le détail de leurs maladies, les moyens de les prévenir, & les remedes pour les guérir, avec une instruction sur les haras : l'art de monter a cheval, & de dresser les chevaux de manege : augmenté d'un nouveau dictionnaire de manege, & d'une table des matieres très étendue : le tout enrichi de figures en taille-douce. (Par la Compagnie des libraires, 1741), by Delcampe and Louis Liger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pratiqve dv cavalier, ov, L'exercice de monter a cheval (Chez Guillaume Loyson ... et Iean Baptiste Loyson ..., 1650), by René de Menou and François Chauveau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scielta di notabili avvertimenti, pertinenti a' cavalli ... : col ritratto del cavallo, oue si ueggono tutti i suoi morbi, co' medicamenti applicati a loro. (Appresso Gio. Andrea Valuassori, detto Guadagnino, 1571), by Federico Grisone (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'art de monter à cheval : pour elever la noblesse dans les plus beaux airs du manege : enseignée & pratiquée par les illustres & fameux ecuyers de France, tant pour les voltes, caprioles, courbettes, passades, sauts de terre à terre, courses de bagues; que pour tout ce que le cavalier doit sçavoir pour se rendre habile homme de cheval : avec les figures necessaires & les remedes pour guerir les maladies des chevaux (Chez Nicolas Le Gras ..., 1691), by Delcampe and Nicolas Le Gras (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cavallo da maneggio, libro dove si tratta della nobilissima virtv del cavalcare (Per Giovan Giacomo Kyrneri, 1650), by Giovanni Battista di Galiberto and Johann Jakob Kürner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Science de la cauallerie (Ché Ignace Dominique Voigt ..., 1717), by Alfonsus Guerini de Preville and Ignace Dominique Voigt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ritterliche Reutter Kunst, darinnen ordentlich begriffen, wie man zuvorderst die ritterliche, und adeliche Ubung der Reutterey, bevorab in Teutschland (Durch Martin Lechler, in Verlegung Sigmund Feyrabends, 1584), by Jost Amman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cavallo frenato di Pirro Antonio Ferraro napolitano (Appresso Antonio Pace, 1602), by Pirro Antonio Ferraro and Giovanni Battista Ferraro (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anti-maquignonage pour éviter la surprise dans l'emplette des chevaux (Nella Stamperia imperiale :, 1753), by Reis Eisenberg, Giuseppe Allegrini, and Carlo Bartolomeo Gregori (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hippopronia, grundtlicher unnd eigentlicher Bericht inn zwey Bücher verfasset (Durch B. Jobins (seligen) Erben, 1599), by Caspar Reuschlein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Methode nouvelle, et invention extraordinaire de dresser les chevaux, et les travailler selon la nature : qui est perfectionée par la subtilité d'un art, qui n'a jamais esté trouvé, que par le tres-noble, haut, & tres-puissant prince, Guillaume de Cavendysh ... : traduite mot à mot en François, sur l'original anglois. (Chez Tho. Milbourn, 1671), by William Cavendish Newcastle and Thomas Milbourn (page images at HathiTrust)
• De cavalieri (Presso Domenico-Antonio Parrino, 1711), by Giuseppe d' Alessandro (page images at HathiTrust)
• Künstlicher Bericht und allerzierlichste Beschreybung des edlen, vhesten, und hochberümten Ehrn Friderici Grisonis Neapolitanischen hochlöblichen Adels (Durch Michael Manger, in Verlegung Georgen Willers, 1573), by Federico Grisone, Jost Amman, and Johann Fayser (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bellerophon (Sumtibus Wolfgangi Mauritii Endteri, & haeredum Johannis Andreae Endteri, 1678), by Georg Simon Winter, Peter Troschel, and Cornelius Nicolaus Schurtz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ander Haupt-Theil des vollkommenen ergäntzten Pferd-Schatzes : dessen I. Inhalt auf den Reuter und desselben Bezeigungen zielend, als die nothwendige Theoria in dess Reuters Unterweisungsart ... : wie der 2. Inhalt auf das Pferd und desselben Bezeigungen in aller Abrichtung gerichtet. (In Verlegung Thomas Matthias Götzen, gedruckt bey Nicolaus Kuchenbeckern sel. Wittwe, 1664), by Johann Christoph Pinter von der Au, Anna Margarete Kuchenbecker, and Thomas Matthäus Götze (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ecole de cavalerie : contenant la connoissance, l'instruction, et la conservation du cheval (Par la compagnie, 1756), by François Robichon de La Guérinière, Benoit Audran, Simon Henri Thomassin, Guillaume d' Heulland, and Charles Parrocel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le caualerice françois. (Chez Abel l'Angelier au premier pilier de la grand' Salle du Palais, 1610), by Salomon de La Broue and Karel van Mallery (page images at HathiTrust)
• Della Cavalleria ([G. E. v. Löhneyss], 1609), by Georg Engelhard von Löhneyss (page images at HathiTrust)
• A New System of Horsemanship, by Claude Bourgelat, trans. by Richard Berenger (Gutenberg ebook)
• Cavallarizzo. English (Imprinted at London : By H. Denham, 1584), by Claudio Corte and Thomas Bedingfield (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The experienced farrier, or, Farring compleated In two books physical and chyrurgical. Bringing pleasure to the gentleman, and profit to the countrey-man. ... For here is contained every thing that belongs to a true horse-man, groom, farrier or horse-leach, viz. breeding; the manner how, the season when, ... and what are fit for generation; the feeder, rider, keeper, ambler and buyer; as also the making of several precious drinks, suppositories, balls, purgations, ... and directions how to use them for all inward and outward diseases. Also the paring and shooing of all manner of hoofes, ... The prices and vertues of most of the principal drugs, both simple and compound belonging to farring, ... also a large table of the virtues of most simples set down alphabetically, and many hundreds of simples placed one after another, for the cure of all ... diseases, ... with many new receipts of excellent use and value; never yet printed before in any author. By E.R. Gent. (London : printed by Richard Northcott adjoyning to S. Peters Alley in Cornhill, and at the Marrier and Anchor upon New-Fish street Hill, near London-bridge, 1681), by Gent E. R. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The young horse-man, or, The honest plain-dealing cavalier Wherein is plainly demonstrated, by figures and other-wise, the exercise and discipline of the horse, very usefull for all those that desire the knowledge of warlike horse-man-ship. By John Vernon. (London : printed by Andrew Coe, 1644), by John Vernon (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The fower chiefyst offices belongyng to horsemanshippe that is to saye. The office of the breeder, of the rider, of the keper, and of the ferrer. In the firste parte wherof is declared the order of breding of horses. In the seconde howe to breake them, and to make theym horses of seruyce, conteyninge the whole art of ridynge lately set forth, and nowe newly corrected and amended of manye faultes escaped in the fyrste printynge, as well touchyng the bittes as other wyse. Thirdely howe to dyet them, aswell when they reste as when they trauell by the way. Fourthly to what diseases they be subiecte, together with the causes of such diseases, the sygnes howe to knowe them, and finally howe to cure the same. Whyche bookes are not onely paynfully collected out of a nomber of aucthours, but also orderly dysposed and applyed to the vse of thys oure cou[n]trey. By Tho. Blundeuill of Newton Flotman in Norff. (Imprinted at London : By VVyllyam Seres dwellyng at the west ende of Paules churche, at the signe of the Hedgehogge. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum, [1566]), by Thomas Blundeville and Federico. Ordini di cavalcare Grisone (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Cauelarice, or The English horseman contayning all the arte of horse-manship, as much as is necessary for any man to vnderstand, whether he be horse-breeder, horse-ryder, horse-hunter, horse-runner, horse-ambler, horse-farrier, horse-keeper, coachman, smith, or sadler. Together, with the discouery of the subtill trade or mistery of horse-coursers, & an explanatio[n] of the excellency of a horses vndersta[n]ding, or how to teach them to doe trickes like Bankes his curtall: and that horses may be made to drawe drie-foot like a hound. Secrets before vnpublished, & now carefully set down for the profit of this whole nation: by Geruase Markham. ([London : Printed [by Edward Allde and W. Jaggard] for Edward White, and are to be solde at his shop neare the little north doore of Saint Paules Church at the signe of the Gun, 1607]), by Gervase Markham (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Discource of horsmanshippe. Abridgments (London : Printed by I. D[awson] for R. Young, and are sold by P. Nevill in Ivie-lane, 1639), by Gervase Markham (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Markhams faithfull farrier wherein the depth of his skill is layd open in all those principall and approued secrets of horsemanship, which the author neuer published, but hath kept in his brest, and hath beene the glory of his practise. (Printed at London : By T.C. for Michael Sparke, dwelling in Greene Arbor, and are to be sold by Rich. Royston, at his shop in I[...] Lane, 1630), by Gervase Markham (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Markhams maister-peece, or, What doth a horse-man lacke containing all possible knowledge whatsoeuer which doth belong to any smith, farrier or horse-leech, touching the curing of all maner of diseases or sorrances in horses : drawne with great paine and most approued experience from the publique practise of all the forraine horse-marshals of Christendome and from the priuate practise of all the best farriers of this kingdome : being deuided into two bookes, the first containing all cures physicall, the second whatsoeuer belongeth to chirurgerie, with an addition of 130 most principall chapters and 340 most excellent medicines, receits and secrets worthy euery mans knowledge, neuer written of nor mentioned in any author before whatsoeuer : together with the true nature, vse, and qualitie of euerie simple spoken of through the whole worke : reade me, practise me, and admire me / written by Geruase Markham gentleman. (London : Printed by Nicholas Okes, and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson, dwelling at the signe of the White Horse neere to the great North doore of S. Pauls Church, 1610), by Gervase Markham (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A new method, and extraordinary invention, to dress horses, and work them according to nature as also, to perfect nature by the subtility of art, which was never found out, but by ... William Cavendishe ... (London : Printed by Tho. Milbourn, 1667), by William Cavendish Newcastle (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Compleat horseman: or, True art of horsemanship, in all its parts and perfections (London : printed for Henry Nelme, at the Leg and Star, over-against the Royal Exchange in Cornhil, 1697), by A. S. and Adolphus Speed (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Gentleman's new jockey, or, Farrier's approved guide containing the exactest rules and methods for breeding and managing horses, &c. ... especially what relates to racing or running, coursing, travel, war, &c., with directions for heats, dieting, dressing ... ; to which is added a second part, containing many rare and new secrets, never before made publick ... ; illustrated with sundry curious and necessary cutts. (London : Printed by W.W. for Nicholas Boddington ..., 1687), by G. L. and G. L. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Up and be doing, and the Lord will be with thee. (Imprinted at London : [By Edward Allde] for Edward VVhite, and are to be solde at his shop at the signe of the Gun, neere the little north dore of Saint Paules, 1609), by Nicholas Morgan (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An hipponomie or the vineyard of horsemanship deuided into three bookes. 1. The theorick part, intreating of the inward knowledge of the man.2. The first practicke part, shewing how to worke according to that knowledge. 3. The second practicke part, declaring how to apply both hunting and running horses to the true grounds of this art. In which is plainly laid open the art of breeding, riding, training and dieting of the said horses. Wherein also many errors in this art, heretofore published, are manifestly detected. By Michaell Baret ... (London : Printed by George Eld, 1618), by Michael Baret (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The art of riding set foorth in a breefe treatise, with a due interpretation of certeine places alledged out of Xenophon, and Gryson, verie expert and excellent horssemen: wherein also the true vse of the hand by the said Grysons rules and precepts is speciallie touched: and how the author of this present worke hath put the same in practise, also what profit men maie reape thereby: without the knowledge whereof, all the residue of the order of riding is but vaine. Lastlie, is added a short discourse of the chaine or cauezzan, the trench, and the martingale: written by a gentleman of great skill and long experience in the said art. (Imprinted at London : By Henrie Denham, 1584), by John Astley (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The schoole of horsmanship VVherein is discouered vvhat skill and knowledge is required in a good horseman, practised by perfect experience. And also how to reforme anie restie horse, of what nature and disposition so euer. Briefely touching the knowledge of the breeder, sadler, smith, and the horseleach. With a strange and rare inuention how to make a new kinde of racke, and how to teach a horse to lie vpon his bellie vntill the rider take his backe. By Christ. Clifford, Gent. (Imprinted at London : [By T. East] for Thomas Cadman, and are to be solde at his shop in Paules Churchyard, at the signe of the Bible, 1585), by Christopher Clifford (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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