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First Edition. Large 12mo in 6s, pp.[2(blank)], 839, [3(blank)], with 45 folding woodcut plates (inconsistently numbered); spotted in places, plates creased, a few margins dust-stained and chipped; contemporary marbled sheep, spine gilt-ruled in compartments between four raised bands, gilt red morocco lettering-piece in one, clasps to fore-edge, edges stained yellow, endbands printed on linen, sewn on three sunken cords (of which two laced in); rubbed with substantial surface loss to spine, boards a little warped, lacking one clasp.First American edition of Winter's important work on farriery, extensively illustrated. The most influential German work on veterinary medicine, the text was published in Latin and German as Hippiater expertus [] Wohlerfahrner Ross-Artzt in 1678 by George Simon Winter von Adlersflügel (16291701), equerry to the duke of Württemberg and director of the stud farm at Marbach. The work remained in use throughout the eighteenth century, and by 1757 the folio treatise had been replaced by a popular duodecimo manual on farriery, here published for the first time for the benefit of German-speaking farmers in North America. Not in Dingley; not in Mellon; not in Dejager (cf.pp.272281 ). Language: German.