An eighteenth-century compendium of hippological knowledge (in French) by F. A. Garsault, 1746,...

GARSAULT Fr[ançois] A[lexandre] de - Le Nouveau Parfait Maréchal, ou la Connoissance Generale et Universelle du Cheval, divisé en sept traités. 1°. De sa Construction, 2°. Du Haras, 3°. De l'Ecuyer & du Harnois, 4°. Du Medecin, ou Traité des Maladies des Chevaux, 5°. Du Chirurgien & des Opérations, 6°. Du Maréchal ferrant, 7°. De l'Apoticaire, ou des Remedes. Avec un Dictionnaire des Termes de Cavalerie. Le tout enrichi de cinquante Figures en Taille-douce. Seconde Edition [...]. A Paris 1746, chez Jacques-Nicolas Le Clerc. 4, pp. [38], 641, fols. tabl. 29, botanical plates 20, portrait 1. bound in period gilt leather, gilt trim.
Slight loss of lower spine edge, slight loss of corner of rear cover, vertical crease of portrait, staining of last page of text, moisture mark on plate 26; nevertheless good condition. Added at the end of the volume (not included in the bibliographical description above) are 7 foreign period plates, on. Eighteenth-century compendium of hippological knowledge by F. Garsault (1691-1778) - French botanist, zoologist, also painter. The work was first published in 1741; the present edition is its second expanded edition. The fold-out copper engraved plates show the anatomical structure of the horse, methods of looping and harnessing, stable equipment, elements of harness, saddle construction, pests in the stable, organization of the forge, types of horseshoes. The chapter on veterinary medicines is equipped with 20 boards with likenesses of medicinal plants.