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Horses.- Solleysel (Jacques de) The Parfait Mareschal, or Compleat Farrier, 2 parts in 1, additional engraved title and 6 folding plates to part 1, 3 plates with lower corner torn away, part 2 with engraved frontispiece but lacking title (that for Sir William Davenant's Works, 1673 bound in instead), 3U-3Z misbound at beginning of part 1, part 2 foxed, contemporary calf, rubbed, head of spine chipped, [Wing S4458], folio, Edinburgh, Printed by George Mosman, 1696; sold not subject to return ⁂ Several ownership inscriptions of George Home of Kames, including one on verso of engraved title to part one "price one guinea having subscribed for the book), suggesting that the erroneous title-page (which also bears his ownership inscription) to part 2 was bound in near the beginning of this copy's life.