Taplin improved; or a complete treatise on the art of farriery, wherein are fully explained the nature and structure of that usefull creature, a horse; with the diseases and accidents he is liable to and the methods of cure : Exemplified by ten elegant cuts, each the full figure of a horse, describing all the various parts of that nobel animal. Likewise, rules for breeding and training of colts; practical receipts for the cure of common distempers incident to oxen, cows, calves, sheep, lambs, hogs, &c. To which is prefixed ten minutes advice to the purchasers of horses / by Henry Bracken.

Other author Bracken, Henry, 1697-1764.
Format Microform
Publication InfoTroy : Printed and sold by Francis Adnacourt, and also sold by Whiting & Powers [etc.], 1815.
Description204 pages, 10 plates : illustrations ; 17 cm.
Subjects

Variant title Compendium of farriery
Variant title Farriery improved
Variant title Complete treatise on the art of farriery
Variant title American farrier
SeriesLaupus has: Early American medical imprints ; reel 92, no. 1860
Early American medical imprints, 1668-1820 ; reel 92, no. 1860. UNAUTHORIZED
Laupus has: Early American medical imprints ; reel 92, no. 1860. UNAUTHORIZED
General notePublished in York in 1790 under title: Taplin improved; or, A compendium of farriery. WIlliam Taplin had nothing to do with the work; his name uas used to help the sale.
General noteA York 1792 edition of apparently the same work is listed in the Brit. Mus. Cat. as "A new edition" of Henry Bracken's Farriery improv'd; and American editions appeared in Baltimore in 1794 and in Philadelphia in 1796 and 1798 under Bracken's name with title: Farriery improved. It is not, however, the some work as Bracken's Farriery improv'd, published in London in 2 v., 1734-43.
General notePublished anonymously in New Haven in 1816 under title: A complete treatise on the art of farriery. Published in Troy, N.Y., in 1862 under title: The American farrier, or New-York horse doctor; being a further improvement upon Adancourt's "Taplin improved."
Reproduction noteMicrofilm. Woodbridge, Conn., Research Publications, 1973. 1 reel. 35 mm. (Early American medical imprints, 1668-1820, reel 92, no. 1860).
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