[Rarebooks] FS: Modern Practice of Farriery, Philadelphia 1807

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Thompson, J[ohn]., of Clifton, in Yorkshire.  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: Printed by Joseph Crukshank, 1807.

Second American edition.  12mo, full contemporary sheep, red leather lettering label on the spine.  [iv], xxiv, [25]-152 pp.  Head of spine chipped; upper joints just cracking but still sound; some significant foxing throughout; early ownership inscriptions on first blanks.  A good copy and uncommon on the market.

Second American edition, first printed in New York in 1793, with a slightly different title.  Shaw & Shoemaker 13690 


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