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Adorned with 9 folding engraved plates (including two plates marked 6a and 6b), relating to the anatomy of the horse.
Etienne Lafosse, known as the son (1738-1820), distinguished veterinarian, author of a very important Course on hippiatrics (1774), was one of the first correspondents of the Institute. Author of numerous works on the anatomy and pathology of the horse, he acquired an international reputation. The Marshal's Guide is one of his best works.?
Contemporary binding, green half-leather, smooth spine adorned with the title and gilt boxes.
Condition: Binding as is. Losses in the caps, jaws partly split with two restorations with tape. The solid volume. Fresh interior, rare foxing, boards in good condition.
Philippe Etienne Lafosse is the son of Etienne Guillaume Lafosse, one of the first doctors in equine medicine who contributed to the recognition of veterinary medicine as a science in its own right. His father, after making him do his humanities at the college of Harcourt, demanded that he do the job of groom, then for two years that of marshal. He was subsequently instructed to learn the anatomy of the horse and in the meantime applied himself to the dissection of horses.
In 1772, he published a Cours d'Hippiatrique, a book in which he noted the errors committed by Bourgelat in the Elements of Hippiatrics and the Elements of Veterinary Art.
In 1779, on the death of Bourgelat, he published a New Practical Riding Theory, a book in which he criticized the veterinary schools of Alfort and Lyon. "In 1764, he had provided M. Choiseul, then Minister of War, with plans for a School of
farriery which was to be established in Paris, but Bertin became minister and the School of Alfort was established, giving Bourgelat, a friend of Bertin, the General Inspectorate of Veterinary Schools, from which Lafosse was systematically excluded as a result of animosity between Bourgelat and the two Lafosse. Hence Lafosse's hatred of Bourgelat and the School of Alfort." Mennessier de la Lance
Philippe Etienne? Lafosse
Marshal's guide. Treaty of the Ferrure. Book Containing an exact knowledge of the Horse, and the manner of distinguishing and of curing its Diseases, Together, A Treatise on the Shoeing which is suitable for him.
Paris, Amable Costes, 1818
in-8 (20.5 x 13 cm); xii-420pp.
Subject: Rare Treatise Hippology Etienne? Lafosse Anatomy Horse Veterinary Medicine Hippism Horsemanship Guide du Marechal 1818 66712867
