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Modern Practice of Farriery, or complete Horse Doctor, explaining the various Symptoms of the approaching Disorders and the most approved Cures for the several Diseases to which Horses are subject, likewise the most certain Rules for Chusing Horses, with easy Directions for Riding, whereby a Person from small Experience may become not only a complete Horseman, but also a complete Farrier, including also the most judicious and approved Methods of Managing a Horse on a Journey, the whole being the Result of 37 Years Practice and Experience.

Philadelphia, Joseph Crukshank, 1807.

12mo, pp. [4], xxiv, [25]-152; foxed in places, damp-stain to lower corner of early leaves; contemporary speckled sheep, spine gilt-ruled in compartments, gilt morocco lettering-piece in one, sewn on 2 sunken cords; worn, bumped and rubbed with minor losses, joints split and end-caps lost; front free endpaper inscribed by Robert Bolemans.

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Modern Practice of Farriery, or complete Horse Doctor, explaining the various Symptoms of the approaching Disorders and the most approved Cures for the several Diseases to which Horses are subject, likewise the most certain Rules for Chusing Horses, with easy Directions for Riding, whereby a Person from small Experience may become not only a complete Horseman, but also a complete Farrier, including also the most judicious and approved Methods of Managing a Horse on a Journey, the whole being the Result of 37 Years Practice and Experience.

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First Philadelphia (second American) edition. Penned by a Yorkshire farrier from Clifton, the Complete Horse Doctor first assumed the title of the ‘Modern Practice of Farriery’ for the New York edition of 1793, despite having been in circulation in Britain since 1760.

Not in Dingley; not in Mellon.

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