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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 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. Now the sixteenth time printed, corrected, and augmented, with above thirty new chapters, and Forty New Medicines heretofore never Publish'd. To which is Added, The Exactest Receipts for Curing all Diseases in Oxen, Cows, Sheep, Hogs, Goats, Dogs, and all smaller Cattle. Also The compleat jockey; containing methods for the training horses up for racing, with their Heats and Courses, and Manner of Keeping, &c. Also, Instructions to avoid being Cheated by Horse-Coursers. To which is Added, in this Sixteenth 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 true Way to improve St. Foin. With divers other Things never before made Publick.

Title
Markham's master-piece: containing all knowledge belonging to the smith, farrier, or horse-leach, touching the curing all diseases in horses [electronic resource] : 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. Now the sixteenth time printed, corrected, and augmented, with above thirty new chapters, and Forty New Medicines heretofore never Publish'd. To which is Added, The Exactest Receipts for Curing all Diseases in Oxen, Cows, Sheep, Hogs, Goats, Dogs, and all smaller Cattle. Also The compleat jockey; containing methods for the training horses up for racing, with their Heats and Courses, and Manner of Keeping, &c. Also, Instructions to avoid being Cheated by Horse-Coursers. To which is Added, in this Sixteenth 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 true Way to improve St. Foin. With divers other Things never before made Publick.
Author
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.
Publication
London : printed for M. Wotton at the Three Daggers in Fleetstreet; and G. Coniers, at the Golden-Ring in Little-Britain, 1703.

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Description
[10],328[i.e.336],i[i.e.iv],22,37,[3]p. : ill.; 4⁰.
Uniform Title
  • Markhams maister-peece
  • Eighteenth century collections online.
Alternative Title
Markhams maister-peece
Subject
  • Horsemanship
  • Horses > Diseases
  • Veterinary medicine > Early works to 1800
Note
  • Pp. 335, 336, iv misnumbered 327, 328, i.
  • With an initial advertisement, and an additional engraved titlepage which forms part of sig. A, and with a final advertisement leaf.
  • Reproduction of original from British Library.
Indexed In (note)
  • English Short Title Catalog
Reproduction (note)
  • Electronic reproduction.
OCLC
  • 642728081
  • T90960
Author
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.
Title
Markham's master-piece: containing all knowledge belonging to the smith, farrier, or horse-leach, touching the curing all diseases in horses [electronic resource] : 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. Now the sixteenth time printed, corrected, and augmented, with above thirty new chapters, and Forty New Medicines heretofore never Publish'd. To which is Added, The Exactest Receipts for Curing all Diseases in Oxen, Cows, Sheep, Hogs, Goats, Dogs, and all smaller Cattle. Also The compleat jockey; containing methods for the training horses up for racing, with their Heats and Courses, and Manner of Keeping, &c. Also, Instructions to avoid being Cheated by Horse-Coursers. To which is Added, in this Sixteenth 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 true Way to improve St. Foin. With divers other Things never before made Publick.
Imprint
London : printed for M. Wotton at the Three Daggers in Fleetstreet; and G. Coniers, at the Golden-Ring in Little-Britain, 1703.
Series
Eighteenth century collections online.
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
Indexed In:
English Short Title Catalog, T90960.
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Place of Publication
Great Britain England London.
Added Author
Gale (Firm)
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