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The compleat horseman: : discovering the surest marks of the beauty, goodness, faults and imperfections of horses: the signs and causes of their diseases, the true method both of their preservation and cure: with reflexions on the regular and preposterous use of bleeding and purging. Also the art of shooing, with the several kinds of shooes, adapted to the various defects of bad feet, and the preservation of good. Together with the best method of breeding colts; backing 'em, and making their mouths, &c. By the Sieur de Solleysell, Querry to the present French king for his great horses, and one of the Royal Academy of Paris. To which is added, a most excellent supplement of riding; collected from the best authors. With an alphabetical catalogue of all the physical simples in English, French, and Latin. By Sir William Hope, ... Made English from the eighth edition of the original, and adorn'd with figures