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A02060 The compleat horseman and expert ferrier In two bookes. The first, shewing the best manner of breeding good horses, with their choyce, nature, riding and dyeting ... The second, directing the most exact and approved manner how to know and cure all maladies and diseases in horses ... dedicated to his most Excellent Majestie, by Thomas de Gray Esquire. De Grey, Thomas.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver. 1639 (1639) STC 12205; ESTC S106703 378,871 394

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