Markham's Master-piece revived : containing all knowledge belonging to the smith, farrier, or horse-leach, touching the curing all diseases in horses : drawn with great pains from approved experience, and the publick practice of the best horse-marshals in Christendom : divided into two books. The I. containing cures physical; the II. all cures chirurgical: together with the nature use and quality of every simple mentioned through the whole work. To which is added by way of appendix, The countryman's care for his other cattle : containing the exactest receipts for curing all diseases in oxen, cows, sheep, hogs, goats, and all smaller cattel [as printed], with many new additions. And now in this impression is added The compleat jockey; containing methods for the training of horses up for racing; with their heats and courses, and manner of keeping, &c. Also instructions to the buyers, to avoid cheating hourse-coursers; and all things necessary for gentlemen, and others. Never before made publick.
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| Language: | English |
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London :
Printed for John Wright at the Crown on Ludgate Hill and Thomas Passinger at the Three Bibles on London-Bridge,
1683-1684.
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| Edition: | Now the thirteenth time printed, corrected and augmented with above thirty new chapters, and forty new medicines heretofore never publish'd. |
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| Item Description: | First English language veterinary manual to be considered standard work on the subject. Cf. Poynter. First issued under title: Markhams maister-peece, or, What doth a horse-man lacke (London : Printed by Nicholas Okes, 1610). The second book and the two appendices have special t.ps., the last one dated 1684. Signatures: A⁴ a⁴ B-3H⁴ 5A-5F⁴ 5G². Errors in pagination: 252-256 for 152-156 and 47 for 49 (at end). |
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| Physical Description: | 16 unnumbered pages, 394 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 26, 47, that is, 49 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 20 cm. |