Clark, James (1732?-1806)

Observations upon the shoeing of Horses: with an Anatomical description of the bones in the foot of a Horse ... Edinburgh [sic]: Printed for A. Donaldson. M.DCCLXX.

Late 18th century

1 volume 137 ll. + 6 bl. ll. 4to. 20 x 16 cm. Original quarter-morocco binding. The plate mentioned in the text is wanting.

Purchased 1910.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

This MS. is a copy of the first edition of Clark's work.

In Sir F. Smith's 'Early history of Veterinary Literature' 1924, Vol. II, pp. 111-130, there is a long and eulogistic notice of Clark and his works, who had qualified at Edinburgh in 1770, but of whose life little seems to be known.