The citizen and country experienced farrier ...  To all which is added: a valuable and fine collection of the surest and best receipts in the known world for the cure of all maladies and distempers that are incident to horses of what kind soever, with directions to know what is the ailment, or disease.

Gervase Markham;  J. Markham, G. Jefferies, and discreet Indians; John Millis

 Baltimore, Samuel Sower, 1797

[18th Century American Veterinary Medicine] Bound in contemporary calf. 12mo. viii, pages 9-317. 17 cm.  Early signature. Some marginalia to rear end sheet, front pastedown. Moderate toning. Second American edition, Rare Marylandia. "The earliest American publication devoted to the selection, care, and racing of horses, and the first book printed in Maryland about horses" (Library Issues, University of Maryland, Winter 1995, p.4). This popular handbook went into at least six editions by 1840. <br> Refs: Evans 32419; Austin 1193; Henderson, p.169. Originally published in colonial Wilmington, Del, in 1764. 

"Containing I. The most best approved method of ordering, dieting, exercising, purging, scowring, and cleaning of horses: also choice restoratives to clear the heart, procure an appetite, and to clear the lungs and pipes, so as to strengthen wind, and give large breath to the running or race-horse. II. A certain cure method to know the true state of any horse's body, as to sickness or health. III. The true shape of a horse explained: with choice directions for buying. IV. An experienced and approved method for raising of horses ... V.A sure and certain rule to know the age of any horse ... VI. The best and experienced way of keeping the common hackney ... free from colds, strains, windgalls, amd gross humours. VII. An approved method of purging, bleeding and feeding cattle; with a choice approved receipts for the diseases they are incident to ..."