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• Horses -- Diseases -- Early works to 1800
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• Horses -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800
• Horses -- Marking -- Italy -- Early works to 1800
• Horses -- Paces, gaits, etc -- Early works to 1800
• Horses -- Scotland -- Early works to 1800
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• 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 Faras-Nama of Hashimi (attributed to Salihotra; in Persian, with English notes; Kolkata: Asiatic Society, 1910), by Zayn al-'Abidin 'Ali ibn al-Husayn, ed. by D. C. Phillott, contrib. by Sa-li-ho-tra and Nelson Annandale (page images (with unusual ordering) at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La parure des cavaliers et l'insigne des preux (P. Geuthner, 1924), by ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Ibn Hudhayl and Louis Mercier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kleine Reitschule. (Kanter, 1940), by Johann Elias Ridinger (page images at HathiTrust)
• La parure des cavaliers et l'insigne des preux texte arabe, edité d'après le manuscrit de M. Nehlil, revu et corrigé sur l'exemplaire de la bibliothèque de l'Escurial (Geuthner, 1922), by ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Ibn Hudhayl and Louis Mercier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Farriery improv'd : or, a compleat treatise upon the art of farriery. Wherein is fully explain'd, the nature, structure and mechanism of ... a horse, the diseases, and accidents he is liable to, and methods of cure ... Likewise an account of drugs and mix'd medicines used in farriery (J. Shuckburgh ... and W. Johnston ..., 1756), by Henry Bracken, Timoteo O'Scanlan, William Johnston, and J. Shuckburgh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Élémens de l'art vétérinaire : traité de la conformation extérieure du cheval... (de l'imprimerie & dans la Librairie Vétérinaire de M. R. Huzard ..., 1797), by Claude Bourgelat, Antonio Hernández Morejón, Jean-Baptiste Huzard, and Marie-Rosalie Huzard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Instituciones de albeytería, y examen de practicantes en élla : divididas en seis tratados, en los que se explican las materias mas esenciales para sus professores (en la imprenta de los Herederos de Juan de Ariztia :, 1740), by Francisco García Cabero, Juan Antonio Lopez, Juan de Ariztia, and Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Élémens de l'art vétérinaire. Precis anatomique du corps du cheval ... (chez Vallat-la-Chapelle ..., 1769), by Claude Bourgelat, Vallat-la-Chapelle, and Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Précis angéiologique nevrologique et adémologique, ou Traité abrégé des vaisseaux sanguins, des vaisseaux nerveux et des glandes du cheval (chez Vallat-la-Chapelle ..., 1768), by Claude Bourgelat, Vallat-la-Chapelle, and Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Précis splanchnologique, au traité abrégé des viscères du cheval (chez Vallat-la-Chapelle ..., 1769), by Claude Bourgelat, Vallat-la-Chapelle, and Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Précis de la connoissance extérieure du cheval. (s.n., 1780), by Pierre Flandrin and Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ḥilyat al-fursān wa-shiʻār al-shujʻān (Paul Geuthner, 1922), by ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Ibn Hudhayl and Louis Mercier (page images at HathiTrust)
• The compleat horseman (Houghton-Mifflin, 1614), by Gervase Markham and Daniel Peri Lucid (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le parfait mareschal qui enseigne a connoistre la beauté, la bonté et les defauts des chevaux; les signes & les causes des maladies,etc.,etc. (chez Emery, etc., 1723), by Jacques de Solleysel (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)
• The gentleman's recreation : in four parts, viz. hunting, hawking, fowling, fishing ; wherein these generous exercises are largely treated of, and the terms of art for hunting and hawking more amply enlarged than heretofore ; whereto is prefixt a large sculpture, giving easie directions for blowing the horn and other sculptures inserted proper to each recreation, with an abstract at the end of each subject of such laws as relate to the same. (Printed by Freeman Collins, for Nicholas Cox, 1686), by Nicholas Cox 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)
• 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)
• Nouveau régime pour les haras (Chez la veuve Valat-La-Chapelle, libraire, Grand'Salle du palais, 1787), by Esprit Paul de Lafont-Pouloti and Veuve Vallat-la-Chapelle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vollkommene Pferdekenner (Gedruckt bey Joh. Simon Meyer ..., 1764), by Wolf Ehrenfried Reitzenstein, Johann Andreas David Steingruber, and Andreas Hofer (page images at HathiTrust)
• La mareschalerie (Chez Adrian, Perier, rue Sainct Iacques au Compas d'Or, 1610), by Laurentius Rusius and Adrian Perier (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)
• 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)
• Grundtliche Beschreibung wie vnd wa man ein Gestüt von guten edlen Kriegsrossen auffrichten (In Verlegung Nicolaus Rothen, 1611), by Marcus Fugger and Jost Amman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vollkommener ergäntzter Pferdt-Schatz : ausz reiffer Erwegung der Natur, Vernunfft und offtmahligen Erfahrung entstanden ... : Alles in Gestalt einer ausführlichen leicht verständlichen und begreifflichen Theoria und auff dieselbe gegründete Praxis verfasset ... (In Verlegung Thomas Matthias Götzen, Buchh. daselbst, gedruckt bey Nicolaus Kuchenbeckern sel. Wittwe, 1664), by Johann Christoph Pinter von der Au, Anna Margarete Kuchenbecker, Thomas Matthäus Götze, Johann Philipp Thelott, and Christoph Metzger (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)
• Faras-nāmah (1839), by Casey A. Wood, Sayyid Nāẓim 'Alī, and Luṭf Allāh Mulānavī (page images at HathiTrust)
• Faras nāmah : [tarjamah-i Sālūtar]. (1793), by Casey A. Wood, Muḥammad Sulaymān valad-i Muḥammad Qāsim, and 'Abd Allāh ibn Ṣ̣afī (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fā'iḍ al-Faras. (1833), by Ghulām Muḥyi al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad Abdāl Bahārlū Lāhūrī, Casey A. Wood, and Raj. 15th 1254 1838 Sayid Muhammad 'Ali (page images at HathiTrust)
• Della Cavalleria ([G. E. v. Löhneyss], 1609), by Georg Engelhard von Löhneyss (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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 country-man's guide or plain directions for ordering. Curing. Breeding choice, use, and feeding. Of horses, cows, sheep, hoggs, &c. Adorn'd with sculptuers, shewing the proper places in the bodies of the said several beasts, where the said distempers do usually happen. Published for the publick good, by W.W. (London : printed for S. Lee, stationer, over against the post-office in Lombard-street, 1679), by William Winstanley (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)
• The compleat horseman and expert ferrier In two bookes. The first, shewing the best manner of breeding good horses, with their choyce, nature, riding and dyeting ... The second, directing the most exact and approved manner how to know and cure all maladies and diseases in horses ... dedicated to his most Excellent Majestie, by Thomas de Gray Esquire. (London : Printed by Thomas Harper, and are to be sold by Lawrence Chapman, at his shop at Chancery lane end next Holborne, 1639), by Thomas De Grey and William Marshall (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Experienced jocky, compleat horseman, or gentlemans delight containing plain and easie directions in breeding, feeding, keeping and managing horses for all occasions, as war, raccing, hunting, travel, &c. ... to which are added plain and easie directions for the breeding, feeding, managing and curing distempers in bulls, cows, calves, oxen, sheep and swine, useful and necessary for all persons who expect pleasure or profit by any of the forementioned animals, the like before not extant. (London : Printed for Will. Whitwood ..., 1684) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A treatise on the cavalry and saddle horse : with remarks on racing and leaping, observations on breeding, &c. &c. &c. (Printed by D.M. Shury ... for J. Ginger, 1803), by G. Orr and John A. Seaverns Equine Collection (Tufts University) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The reqvests of the gentlemen of the grandjury of this county of Oxford Set under the hand of sixe of them, and presented to the commissioners, were read, and considered of: and thereupon the lords, and others the Kings commissioners have thought fit and ordered as followeth. ([Oxford] : Printed by his Majesties command at Oxford Decemb. 19. by Leonard Lichfield printer to the Vniversity, 1642) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Proclamations. 1643-06-03 (Printed at Oxford : by Leonard Lichfield, printer to the University, 1643), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I) and King Charles I of England (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• English farrier, or, Remedies for curing of diseases in horses. (At London : Printed by Iohn Beale, 1639), by L. W. C. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Approved remedies for diseased horses. (Imprinted at London : By VV. VV[hite] for Thomas Pauier, 1601), by L. W. C. (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Guide du maréchal : ouvrage contenant une connoissance exacte du cheval & la maniere de distinguer & de guérir ses maladies : ensemble un traité de la ferrure qui lui est convenable (chez Lacombe ..., 1766), by Philippe Etiènne Lafosse, François Ambroise Didot, Jacques Lacombe, and Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cours d'anatomie pathologique du cheval (De l'Imprimerie de L. Jorry ..., 1773), by M. Lafosse and Louis Jorry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dess Circkelss vnd Richtscheyts, auch der Perspectiua, vnd Proportion der Menschen vnd Rosse, kurtze, doch gründtliche Vnderweisung, dess rechten gebrauchs : mit viel schönen Figuren, aller anfahenden Jugendt, vnnd andern liebhabern dieser Kunst, als Goldschmiden, Malern, Bildhauwern, Steinmetzen, Schreinern, [et]c. eigentlich fürgebildet, vormals im Truck nie gesehen, sonder jetzunder erstmals von neuwem an Tag gegeben (Bey Egenolff Emmel, in verlegung Simonis Schambergers, 1618), by Heinrich Lautensack and Albrecht Dürer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anatomia del cavallo, infermità, et suoi rimedii (Appresso Gasparo Bindoni, il giouane, 1599), by Carlo Ruini (page images at HathiTrust)
• The anatomy of an horse containing an exact and full description of the frame, situation and connexion of all his parts, (with their actions and uses) exprest in forty-nine copper-plates) : to which is added an appendix, containing two discourses, the one, of the generation of animals, and the other, of the motion of the chyle, and the circulation of the bloud / by Andrew Snape ... (London : Printed by M. Flesher for the authour, and are to be sold by T. Flesher ..., 1683), by Andrew Snape (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Nouveau régime pour les haras (Chez la veuve Valat-La-Chapelle, libraire, Grand'Salle du palais, 1787), by Esprit Paul de Lafont-Pouloti and Veuve Vallat-la-Chapelle (page images at HathiTrust)

• Le parfait mareschal qui enseigne a connoistre la beauté, la bonté et les defauts des chevaux; les signes & les causes des maladies,etc.,etc. (chez Emery, etc., 1723), by Jacques de Solleysel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nouveau régime pour les haras (Chez la veuve Valat-La-Chapelle, libraire, Grand'Salle du palais, 1787), by Esprit Paul de Lafont-Pouloti and Veuve Vallat-la-Chapelle (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)
• Grundtliche Beschreibung wie vnd wa man ein Gestüt von guten edlen Kriegsrossen auffrichten (In Verlegung Nicolaus Rothen, 1611), by Marcus Fugger and Jost Amman (page images at HathiTrust)

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