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• Bits (Bridles) -- Early works to 1800
• Bits (Bridles) -- England
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• Snaffles

• Ordini di cavalcare, et modi di conoscere le nature de' cavalli, di emendare i lor vitii, & d'ammaestrargli per l'uso della guerra, & giovamento de gli huomini (Appresso Gio. Andrea Valuassori, detto Guadagnino, 1571), by Federico Grisone and John A. Seaverns Equine Collection (Tufts University) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ecuirie du S. Federic Grison, gentilhomme napolitain (Chez Guillaume Auuray ..., 1575), by Federico Grisone (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)
• Hippopronia, grundtlicher unnd eigentlicher Bericht inn zwey Bücher verfasset (Durch B. Jobins (seligen) Erben, 1599), by Caspar Reuschlein (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ritterlich und adelich Kunstbuch (Durch Caspar Bertschen, 1615), by Johann Geissert (page images at HathiTrust)

• Proclamation prohibiting the vse of snaffles, and commanding the vse of bittes for riding (Imprinted at London : By Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie, M.DC.XXVII [1627]), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I) and Charles 1600-1649 (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Proclamation prohibiting the vse of snaffles, and commanding the vse of bittes for riding (Imprinted at London : By Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie, M.DC.XXVII [1627]), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I) and Charles 1600-1649 (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• La mareschalerie (Chez Adrian, Perier, rue Sainct Iacques au Compas d'Or, 1610), by Laurentius Rusius and Adrian Perier (page images at HathiTrust)

• Artes e industrias metallicas em Portugal. Ourives-espadeiros, ourives da gineta, freeiros (Typographia Universal, 1903), by Sousa Viterbo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• On seats and saddles : bits and bitting and the prevention and cure of restiveness in horses (Blackwood, 1868), by Francis Dwyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The loriner; opinions and observations on bridle-bits and the suitable bitting of horses, with illustrations. (printed by Nichols, Son, & Co., 1871), by Benjamin Latchford and Juan Segundo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Seats and saddles. (Blackwood, 1869), by Francis Dwyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• On seats and saddles, bits and bitting, and the prevention and cure of restiveness in horses (John W. Lovell Co., 1880), by Francis Dwyer and John A. Seaverns Equine Collection (Tufts University) (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)
• Description motivée d'un nouveau équipage de selle avec paquetage et bridage pour le cavalier (G.J. Pfingsten, 1861), by Søren Christian Barth and John A. Seaverns Equine Collection (Tufts University) (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)
• Cavallo frenato di Pirro Antonio Ferraro napolitano (Appresso Antonio Pace, 1602), by Pirro Antonio Ferraro and Giovanni Battista Ferraro (page images at HathiTrust)