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1. A general system of horsemanship in all it's [sic] branches : containing a faithful translation of that most noble and useful work of his Grace, William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle, entitled, The manner of feeding, dressing, and training of horses for the great saddle, and fitting them for the service of the field in time of war, or for the exercise and improvement of gentlemen in the Academy at home : a science peculiarly necessary throughout all Europe, and which has hitherto been so much neglected, or discouraged in England, that young gentlemen have been obliged to have recourse to foreign nations for this part of their education : with all the original copper-plates, in number forty-three, which were engrav'd by the best foreign masters, under his Grace's immediate care and inspection, and which are explained in the different lessons : and to give all the improvements that may be, this work is ornamented with head-pieces and initial letters, properly adapted to the subsequent chapters, and enlarged with an index.

A general system of horsemanship in all it's [sic] branches : containing a faithful translation of that most noble and useful work of his Grace, William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle, entitled, The manner of feeding, dressing, and training of horses for the great saddle, and fitting them for the service of the field in time of war, or for the exercise and improvement of gentlemen in the Academy at home : a science peculiarly necessary throughout all Europe, and which has hitherto been so much neglected, or discouraged in England, that young gentlemen have been obliged to have recourse to foreign nations for this part of their education : with all the original copper-plates, in number forty-three, which were engrav'd by the best foreign masters, under his Grace's immediate care and inspection, and which are explained in the different lessons : and to give all the improvements that may be, this work is ornamented with head-pieces and initial letters, properly adapted to the subsequent chapters, and enlarged with an index.
Creator:
Newcastle, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1592–1676
Date:
MDCCXLIII [1743]
Physical Description:
2 v. ([2], viii, [11]-142, [4] p., [84] leaves of plates; [2], 4, [4], 36, 33-138, [14] p., [22] leaves of plates) : ill. (engravings) ; 55cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. How to chuse, ride, traine, and diet, both hunting-horses and running horses : vvith all the secrets thereto belonging discouered: An arte neuer heere-to-fore vvritten by any authour. Also a discourse of horsmanship, wherein the breeding, and ryding of horses for seruice, in a briefe manner, is more methodically sette downe, then hath been heeretofore: vvith a more easie and direct course for the ignorant, to attaine to the sayd arte or knowledge. Together with a newe addition for the cure of the horses diseases, of what kinde or nature soeuer.

How to chuse, ride, traine, and diet, both hunting-horses and running horses : vvith all the secrets thereto belonging discouered: An arte neuer heere-to-fore vvritten by any authour. Also a discourse of horsmanship, wherein the breeding, and ryding of horses for seruice, in a briefe manner, is more methodically sette downe, then hath been heeretofore: vvith a more easie and direct course for the ignorant, to attaine to the sayd arte or knowledge. Together with a newe addition for the cure of the horses diseases, of what kinde or nature soeuer.
Creator:
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:
1599
Physical Description:
[126] p. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Twenty five actions of the manage horse / engrav'd by Josephus Sympson, from original drawings of Mr. John Vanderbanck ; to which are added, two of the English hunter ; with the figure of a fine horse measured from the life, shewing all the proportions ; as also a draught of the true shape of the branch ; with short remarks on some parts of horsemanship.

Twenty five actions of the manage horse / engrav'd by Josephus Sympson, from original drawings of Mr. John Vanderbanck ; to which are added, two of the English hunter ; with the figure of a fine horse measured from the life, shewing all the proportions ; as also a draught of the true shape of the branch ; with short remarks on some parts of horsemanship.
Creator:
Vanderbank, John, 1694–1739
Date:
1729
Physical Description:
[4], 8 p., 29, [1] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. A newe booke containing the arte of ryding, and breaking greate horses : together with the shapes and figures, of many and diuers kyndes of byttes, mete to serue diuers mouthes. Very necessary for all gentlemen, souldyours, seruingmen, and for any man that delighteth in a horse.

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Creator:
Blundeville, Thomas, active 1561
Date:
[not before 1566]
Physical Description:
[356] p. : ill. ; 17 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Cauelarice, or The English horseman : contayning all the arte of horse-manship, as much as is necessary for any man to vnderstand, whether he be horse-breeder, horse-ryder, horse-hunter, horse-runner, horse-ambler, horse-farrier, horse-keeper, coachman, smith, or sadler. Together, with the discouery of the subtill trade or mistery of horse-coursers, & an explanatio[n] of the excellency of a horses vndersta[n]ding, or how to teach them to doe trickes like Bankes his curtall: and that horses may be made to drawe drie-foot like a hound. Secrets before vnpublished, & now carefully set down for the profit of this whole nation / by Geruase Markham.

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Creator:
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:
1607
Physical Description:
[16], 88, [4], 212, 233-264, [4], 67, 58-72, [4], 54, [4], 56, [4], 64, [4], 11, 10-81, [5], 20, 25-40 p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Markhams Remembrancer of unpublished secretes : shewinge howe a man may come to be a general horsman by the knowledge of these seauen offyces : 1. Breeder -- 2. Rider -- 3. Feeder -- 4. Keeper -- 5. Ambler -- 6. Buyer, 7 Farrier / G.M., circa 1655.

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Creator:
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:
circa 1655
Physical Description:
1 v. ([16], 22, [2], 33, [3], 71, [3], 11, [5], 24, [4], 31, [1], 76, [5] p.) ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. The horse-mans honour: or, The beautie of horse-man-ship : As the choise, natures, breeding, breaking, riding, and dieting, whether outlandish or English horses. With the true, easie, cheape, and most approued manner, how to know and cure all diseases in any horse whatsoeuer. Not innented [sic] and drawn from forraigne nations, but by long experience and knowledge of many yeares practise: and now published at the request of diuers honorable and worthy persons, for the generall good of this noble nation of Great Britaine.

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Creator:
Morgan, Nicholas, of Crolane
Date:
1620
Physical Description:
[16], 188, 191-255, 266-288, 288-295, 295-343, 144-145, [1] p. : ill. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. A new method, and extraordinary invention, to dress horses, and work them according to nature : as also, to perfect nature by the subtility of art / which was never found out, but by the thrice noble, high, and puissant prince William Cavendishe, Duke, Marquess, and Earl of Newcastle; Earl of Ogle; Viscount Mansfield; and Baron of Bolsover, of Ogle, of Bertram, Bothal and Hepple : Gentleman of His Majesties Bed-chamber; one of His Majesties most honourable Privy-Councel; Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter; His Majesties Lieutenant of the county and town of Nottingham; and Justice in ayre Trent-North: who had the honour to be governour to our most glorious king, and gracious soveraign, in his youth, when he was Prince of Wales; and soon after was made Captain General of all the provinces beyond the river of Trent, and other parts of the kingdom of England; with power, by a special commission, to make knights.

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Creator:
Newcastle, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1592–1676
Date:
in the year 1667
Physical Description:
[12], 342, 001-040, 343-352, [4] p. ; 39 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. A method of breaking horses, and teaching soldiers to ride : designed for the use of the army / by Henry Earl of Pembroke.

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Creator:
Pembroke, Henry Herbert, Earl of, 1734–1794
Date:
MDCCLXII [1762]
Physical Description:
[8], 128 pages, [2] folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. The fower chiefest offices belonging to horsemanshippe : that is to say, the office of the breeder, of the rider, of the keeper, and of the ferrer. In the first parte wherof is declared the order of breeding of horses. In the seconde howe to breake them, and to make them horses of seruice. Conteyninge the whole art of ryding latelye set foorth, and nowe newelye corrected and amended of manye faultes escaped in the fyrst printing, as well touchyng the byttes as otherwyse. Thirdely, howe to dyet them, aswell when they reste as when they traueyle by the way. Fourthly, to what diseases they be subiecte togither with the causes of such diseases, the sygnes howe to knowe them, and finally howe to cure the same. which bookes are not onely painefully collected out of a number of aucthours, but also orderly dysposed and applyed to the vse of thys oure countrey / By Tho. Blundeuill of Newton Flotman in Norff.

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Creator:
Blundeville, Thomas, active 1561
Date:
[1570?]
Physical Description:
[5], 23, [2], 24-25, [4], 58, [29], 24, [5], 93, [1] leaves : ill. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. A method of breaking horses, and teaching soldiers to ride : designed for the use of the army / by Henry Earl of Pembroke.

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Creator:
Pembroke, Henry Herbert, Earl of, 1734–1794
Date:
MDCCLXI [1761]
Physical Description:
[12], 112 pages, [2] folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. The compleat horseman : discovering the surest marks of the beauty, goodness, faults, and imperfections of horses : the signs and causes of their diseases ... : also the art of shoeing ... : together with the best method of breeding colts ... / by the Sieur de Solleysell ... ; 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 ; made English from the eighth edition of the original by Sir William Hope ... ; the whole illustrated with copper cuts ...

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Creator:
Solleysel, Jacques de, 1617–1680
Date:
1717
Physical Description:
2 v. ([2], xlv, [1], 326, 323-324, [2], xvi, 300, [4] p.) : ill., port. ; 32 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. The art of riding : set foorth in a breefe treatise, with a due interpretation of certeine places alledged out of Xenophon, and Gryson, verie expert and excellent, horssemen: wherein also the true vse of the hand by the said Grysons rules and precepts is speciallie touched: and how the author of this present work hath put the same into practise, also what profit men maie reape thereby: without the knowledge whereof, all the residue of the order of riding is but vaine. Lastlie, is added a short discourse of the chaine or cauezzan, the trench, and the martingale / written by a gentleman of great skill and long experience in the said art.

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Creator:
Astley, John, d. 1595
Date:
1584
Physical Description:
[8], 79, [1] p. ; 20 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. The hunter : a discourse of horsemanship : directing the right way to breed, keep, and train a horse, for ordinary hunting and plates.

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Creator:
Langbaine, Gerard, 1656–1692
Date:
1685
Physical Description:
[2], 98 p. ; 19 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. The perfection of horse-manship : dravvne from nature, arte, and practise / By Nicholas Morgan of Crolane, in the countye of Kent, gent.

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Creator:
Morgan, Nicholas, of Crolane
Date:
1609
Physical Description:
[28], 188, 191-255, 266-272, [4], 273-288, 288-295, 295-343, 144-145, [5] p. : ill. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. The schoole of horsmanship : vvherein is discovered vvhat skill and knowledge is required in a good horseman, practised by perfect experience. And also how to reforme anie restie horse, of what nature and disposition so euer. Briefely touching the knowledge of the breeder, sadler, smith, and the horseleach: with a strange and rare inuention how to make a new kinde of racke, and how to teach a horse to lie vpon his bellie vntill the rider take his backe / By Christ. Clifford, Gent.

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Creator:
Clifford, Christopher
Date:
1585
Physical Description:
[7], 24, 29-99, [1] leaves : ill. (diagrs.) ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. An hipponomie or The vineyard of horsemanship : deuided into three bookes. 1. The theorick part, intreating of the inward knowledge of the man. 2. The first practicke part, shewing how to worke according to that knowledge. 3. The second practicke part, declaring how to apply both hunting and running horses to the true grounds of this art. In which is plainly laid open the art of breeding, riding, training and dieting of the said horses. Wherein also many errors in this art, heretofore published, are manifestly detected / by Michaell Baret, practitioner and professor of the same art.

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Creator:
Baret, Michael
Date:
1618
Physical Description:
3 pt. in 1 v. ([20], 48, 51-122, [20], 139, [13], 101, [1], 23, [3] p.) ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. The art of riding : conteining diuerse necessarie instructions, demonstrations, helps, and corrections apperteining to horssemanship, not heretofore expressed by anie other author / Written at large in the Italian toong, by maister Claudio Corte, a man most excellent in this art. Here brieflie reduced into certeine English discourses to the benefit of gentlemen and other desirous of such knowledge.

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Creator:
Corte, Claudio
Date:
1584
Physical Description:
[12], 112 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts