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    • Author/Creator:Snape, Andrew, 1644-
    • Title:The anatomy of an horse : containing an exact and full description of the frame, situation and connexion of all his parts, (with their actions and uses) exprest in forty nine copper-plates : to which is added an appendix, containing two discourses: the one, of the generation of animals; and the other, of the motion of the chyle, and the circulation of the bloud / by Andrew Snape, Jun. Farrier to His Majesty.
    • Published/Created:London : Printed by M. Flesher for the Authour, and are to be sold by T. Flesher at the Angel and Crown in S. Paul's Church-yard, An. Dom. 1683.
    • Physical Description:[14], 237, [1], 45, [7] p., XLIX leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 37 cm. (fol.)
    • Yale Holdings

      • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
      • Call Number: SF765 .S63 1683+ Copy 1 Oversize
      • Status:Not Checked Out
      • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
      • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
      • Call Number: SF765 .S63 1683+ Copy 2 Oversize
      • Status:Not Checked Out
      • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
       
    • Local Notes:BAC: British Art Center has two copies, both bound in sprinkled calf and rebacked. Copy 1 has armorial bookplate of Watkin Williams Esqr. of Pembedr in the county of Denbigh. Inscribed: Richard Mostyn. Copy 2 inscribed: Mar. 1. 1723 Collat. & perfect J Wright; Fawsyde, Bervie, N.B.
    • Notes:The illustrations are chiefly taken from the woodcuts in Carlo Ruini's book on the anatomy of the horse (cf Podeschi).
      With engraved frontispiece portrait (A1v) of the author signed: R. White delin. et sculp:.
      Signatures: A-Z⁴ 2A-2H⁴ 2I² 3A-3F⁴ 3G².
      T.p. enclosed in a plain rule-border.
      Printed marginalia.
      "The appendix, containing two discourses: the one, of the generation of animals; and the other, of the motion of the chyle, and the circulation of the bloud. By the same author" has divisional half-title on leaf 3A1r and begins new pagination.
      Final leaves bear contents and errata.
    • Format:Book
    • References:Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.), S4382
      Arber, E. Term catalogues, 1668-1709 A.D., I, 508
      English short title catalogue, R14873
      Podeschi, J.B. Books on the horse and horsemanship, 31
    • Subjects:Horses--Anatomy--Early works to 1800.
      Veterinary anatomy--Early works to 1800.
      Anatomy--Early works to 1800.
      Blood--Circulation--Early works to 1800.
    • Subjects (Local Yale):Chron.--1683.
      Williams, Watkin--Bookplate
      Mostyn, Richard--Autograph
      Wright, J.--Autograph
    • Genre/Form:Engravings--1683.
    • Also listed under:White, Robert, 1645-1703, engraver.
      Flesher, Miles, active 1682-1687, printer.
      Fletcher, Thomas, active 1677-1686, bookseller.