A General System of Horsemanship in All It's Branches: Containing a Faithful Translation of That Most Noble and Useful Work…Entitled The Manner of Feeding, Dressing, and Training of Horses for The Great Saddle, and Fitting Them for Service of The Field in Time of War, or For The Exercise and Improvement of Gentleman in The Academy at Home: A Science Peculiarly Necessary Throughout all Europe, and Which has Hitherto Been so Much Neglected, or Discouraged in England, That Young Gentlemen Have Been Obliged to Have Recourse to Foriegn Nations for This Part of Their Education. With All the Original Copper-Plates, in Number Forty-Three, which Were Engrav'd by the Best Foreign Masters, Under His Grace's Immediate Care and Inspection, and Which are Explained in The Different Lessons. And to Give All the Improvements that May Be, This Work is Ornamented with Head-Pieces and Initial Letters, Properly Adapted to the Subsequesnt Chapters; and Enlarged with an Index. Vol. II: I) Directions for the Choice of Stallions and Mares, and for Weaning and Managing of Foals, until they come to a proper Maturity for Service, suitable to the Uses they are design'd for. II)The Manner of Keeping, Soiling, Training, and Exercising Race-Horses, and Preparing them for the Course: Also Instructions for the Choice and Management of Hunters; and a Supplemental Discourfe concerning Hounds. III) The Perfect Knowledge of Horses; being a succinct Account of their various Disorders, both internal and external, and their good and bad Qualities; shewing the Seat, Cause, and Symptoms of all Diseases; with proper Recipes, and Methods of Cure, whether by manual Operation or otherwise; the like not hitherto extant in any Book of Farriery whatsoever in the English Tongue. Translated from the French Edition, published at the Hague, under the Inspection of the learned Dr. Boerhaave, by Gafper de Saunier, Riding-Master and Director to the Academy of Leyden; with the Addition of all his Father's Recipes and Remarks, who was forty Years Inspector-General of Lewis the XIVth's Great Stable. IV) The Osteology and Myology of a Horse: Or, an Anatomical Description of all the Bones and Muscles, that compose that most noble and useful Animal; pointing out their various Uses and Affections, and accounting for many other Particulars in the Oeconomy of a Horse, that are not generally known Illustrated with near thirty Copper-plates, in which the Seats of all Diseases are not only exactly described, but with several new Instruments requisite in the Cure of them most accurately described. And to give a more perfect Idea of the different Subjects, all the Anatomical Prints, representing the Muscles, Bones, &c. are wrought off in their proper Colours. To which is added, A large COLLECTION of RECIPES, Communicated by several Persons of Experience and Distinction: TOGETHER WITH TWO COMPLETE INDEXES, The one of DISEASES, the other of MEDICINES ALSO A DICTIONARY, explaining all the Technical Terms that belong to the Stud, the Stable, the Manage, Farriery, or whatever relates to HORSES.

Cavendish, William · London

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Cavendish, William

Date

1743

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London

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Printed for J. Brindley

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English

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Folio (10.625" x 17") Full mottled polished calf with double gilt rule framing covers. Rebacked spine with five gilt decorated raised bands, gilt author/title on gilt framed red leather to second compartment, gilt vol#s to fancy gilt framed third, all others with fancy gilt frames and centered gilt devices. 43 plates as called for, many two page engravings. Marbled endpapers, all edges darkened. Edgewear, corners bumped and/or rubbed with minor loss. Head and foot of spine chipped, with small loss, larger loss to head with a piece of top compartment lacking (see pic). Remnants of sticker with text to reverse of front free flyleaf. Two volumes bound as one. First volume with 42 two page engravings and a two page engraved title page. Vol II with 1 double page and 17 full page engravings for a total of 67 engravings plus the engraved title page.

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S.I.5885 Author: Cavendish, William 2 volumes in 1 Location: London Year: 1743 Title: Vol. I: A General System of Horsemanship in All It's Branches: Containing a Faithful Translation of That Most Noble and Useful Work…Entitled The Manner of Feeding, Dressing, and Training of Horses for The Great Saddle, and Fitting Them for Service of The Field in Time of War, or For The Exercise and Improvement of Gentleman in The Academy at Home: A Science Peculiarly Necessary Throughout all Europe, and Which has Hitherto Been so Much Neglected, or Discouraged in England, That Young Gentlemen Have Been Obliged to Have Recourse to Foreign Nations for This Part of Their Education. With All the Original Copper-Plates, in Number Forty-Three, which Were Engrav'd by the Best Foreign Masters, Under His Grace's Immediate Care and Inspection, and Which are Explained in The Different Lessons. And to Give All the Improvements that May Be, This Work is Ornamented with Head-Pieces and Initial Letters, Properly Adapted to the Subsequent Chapters; and Enlarged with an Index. Title: Vol. II: A General System of Horsemanship in All It's Branches: Containing, I). Directions for the Choice of Stallions and Mares, and for Weaning and Managing of Foals, until they come to a proper Maturity for Service, suitable to the Uses they are design'd for. II). The Manner of Keeping, Soiling, Training, and Exercising Race-Horses, and Preparing them for the Course: Also Instructions for the Choice and Management of Hunters; and a Supplemental Discourse concerning Hounds. III). The Perfect Knowledge of Horses; being a succinct Account of their various Disorders, both internal and external, and their good and bad Qualities; shewing the Seat, Cause, and Symptoms of all Diseases; with proper Recipes, and Methods of Cure, whether by manual Operation or otherwise; the like not hitherto extant in any Book of Farriery whatsoever in the English Tongue. Translated from the French Edition, published at the Hague, under the Inspection of the learned Dr. Boerhaave, by Gafper de Saunier, Riding-Master and Director to the Academy of Leyden; with the Addition of all his Father's Recipes and Remarks, who was forty Years Inspector-General of Lewis the XIVth's Great Stable. IV). The Osteology and Myology of a Horse: Or, an Anatomical Description of all the Bones and Muscles, that compose that most noble and useful Animal; pointing out their various Uses and Affections, and accounting for many other Particulars in the Oeconomy of a Horse, that are not generally known Illustrated with near thirty Copper-plates, in which the Seats of all Diseases are not only exactly described, but with several new Instruments requisite in the Cure of them most accurately described. And to give a more perfect Idea of the different Subjects, all the Anatomical Prints, representing the Muscles, Bones, &c. are wrought off in their proper Colours. To which is added, A large COLLECTION of RECIPES, Communicated by several Persons of Experience and Distinction: TOGETHER WITH TWO COMPLETE INDEXES, The one of Diseases, the other of Medicines also a Dictionary, explaining all the Technical Terms that belong to the Stud, the Stable, the Manage, Farriery, or whatever relates to HORSES. Publisher: Printed for J. Brindley Location: London Year: 1743 From Wiki: William Cavendish was renowned for his abilities as an athlete and scholar. His interests in art and science were wide-ranging. He was a significant patron of the arts - supporting both authors and musicians - and wrote poetry and drama himself. He spent much of his time surrounded by philosophers, playwrights, poets and musicians, who came to be known as 'The Cavendish Circle'. He was also particularly famed for his horsemanship and was the author of several noted works on the subject. He was appointed governor to Prince Charles in 1638, teaching him horse riding. On two notable occasions in 1633 and 1634 he entertained the king lavishly, first at Welbeck Abbey and then at Bolsover Castle, where he had built a large indoor riding school.

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