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 seventeenth 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 Seventeenth Impression, Directions to preserve all sorts

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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 seventeenth 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 Seventeenth Impression, Directions to preserve all sorts
• Markhams maister-peece

People / Organizations

• Gervase Markham (Author)

Imprint

London: printed for M. Wotton, at the Three Daggers in Fleet-Street; and G. Conyers, at the Golden-Ring in Little-Britain, 1710, [1710]

Publication year

1710-1710

ESTC No.

T121688

Grub Street ID

172446

Description

[8],336,iii,i,22,39,[1]p.,plate : ill. ; 4⁰

Note

With an initial leaf of advertisements and an additional titlepage, engraved.

The appendix and the compleat jockey are separately paginated; the register is continuous throughout.

A variant has master-piece in the title.

Price from imprint: Price 3 s. 6 d.

Uncontrolled note

DLLM reports variant