Rare early American veterinary book; appears to be the first edition or the first American edition (there was a London edition of the same year). The plates depict the skeleton of the horse and the intestines of the horse. There is a copy in the Fairman Rogers Collection of books on horses at the University of Pennsylvania. This copy with ownership signature dated 1818 on title-page. Shaw & Shoemaker, 10064; Smith, F. Early Hist. of Vet. Lit., v. 3, p. 118.