Markham's master-piece : containing all knowledge belonging to the smith, farrier, or horse-leach. Touching the curing all diseases in horses. Drawn with great pains, and approv'd experience, and publicke practice of the best horse-marshals in Christendom. Divided into two books. The first containing cures physical; the 2nd, all cures chirurgical. Together with the nature, use and quality of every simple mentioned through the whole work ... To which is added, the exact receipts for curing all diseases in cows, oxen, sheep, hogs, goats, dogs, and all small cattle. Also the compleat jockey; containing methods for the training up horses for racing, with their heats and courses, manner of keeping, &c. Also instructions to avoid being cheated by horse-coursers. To which is added in this twenty-first impression, directions to preserve all sorts of cattle from all manner of diseases; and to feed cattle fat without corn, hay, or grass. Also the way to improve St. Foin. With divers other things, never before made publick.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Now the twenty-first time printed, / |
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| Item Description: | Signatures: pi⁴ B-3C⁴. Following imprint on title page: "Price 4s." The edition statement follows "The nature, use, and quality of every simple mentioned through the whole work." on title page. Woodcut frontispiece is on recto of leaf before titlepage; verso has the explanation of the figures. Pages i-iii have table of contents for the 2nd book. Bookseller's advertisement: page iii. "The right method for the ordering and curing of all diseases in oxen, cows, ..." (caption title) begins pages 23, 4th sequence. Misnumbering: 4th sequence, 1 for 23, 47 for 37. Register is continuous despite pagination. |
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| Physical Description: | [6], 318, iii, [2]-64 pages : frontispiece, illustrations (woodcuts) ; 23 cm. (quarto) |