Books about animals

Horse books spanning nearly a century: buying a sound horse in 1825, stable wisdom from 1859, a farmer’s veterinary handbook from 1894 and a cavalry instructor’s method for teaching young horses to jump.

• Hints To Purchasers Of Horses

  Charles Knight · 1825

  A seventeen-section pocket guide from 1825 on judging a horse before you pay for it: the points of a perfect horse, its paces, mouth, legs, hocks and feet, how to tell its age and how a seller should show it…

  Contents17 sections listed

• The Farmers Ready Reference Or Hand Book Of Diseases Of Horses And Cattle

  S. C. Orr · 1894

  A farmer’s veterinary handbook from 1894, organized by body system: respiratory, digestive and other diseases of the horse, then a second part on cattle, with the nursing, feeding and dosing of sick animals…

  Contents127 sections listed

• Things Worth Knowing About Horses

  Harry Hieover (Charles Bindley) · 1859

  Stable wisdom from 1859 by a writer who spent his life around hunters and harness horses: shying, trotting, driving, draught and harness, pulling horses and the ailing horse. Bindley wrote as Harry Hieover…

  Contents37 sections listed

• Training Young Horses To Jump

  Geoffrey Brooke · 1913

  A 1913 method for schooling young horses over fences, from a Cavalry School instructor: selecting the horse, bits, jumping on the long reins and in a free lane, choosing obstacles, and the rider’s seat. The…

  Contents32 sections listed