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 country=man's care for his other cattle, containing the exactest receipts for curing all diseases in oxen, cows, sheep, hogs, goats, and all smaller cattel. 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,
1681.
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| Edition: | Twelfth time printed, corrected and augmented with above thirty new chapters, and forty new medicines heretofore never publish'd. |
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| Item Description: | Includes indexes. Manicules. Some illustrations are full page; those pages lack a number but are included in the sequence. "The farriers chief instruments", page 379, includes a buttress, called "butteris" 2H2 mis-signed as H2, 5G1 mis-signed as 6G1. Misnumbering: 79-80 repeated; 252-258 for 151-158; in the last section, 47 for 49. Signatures: pi⁴ (a)⁴ B-3H⁴ 5A-⁴ First issued under title: Markhams maister-peece, or, What doth a horse-man lacke (London : Printed by Nicholas Okes, 1610). Additional title page on U3: "Markham's master-piece. The second book, containing all cures chyrurgical, or, such infirmities as being only outward, crave the use of chyrurgery, and are called in horsleach-craft, horses sorances. Newly imprinted corrected, and enlarged, with many notable additions, and most certain approved medicines, never revealed before this impression. Written by Gervase Markham, Gent. London. Printed by Evan Tyler and Ralph Holt, for John Wrigth, at the Crown on Ludgate Hill, and Thomas Passenger at the three Bibles, on London Bridge, 1680." Unsigned, but is U3; unnumbered, but would be pages 147-148; and immediately followed by folded plate (38 x 27 cm) of a numbered woodcut of a horse with lines from numbers to parts of the horse. |
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| Physical Description: | 8 unnumbered preliminary leaves, 394 (should be 396) pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 26 pages, 47 (should be 49) pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm |