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 the publick practice of the best horse-marshals in Christendom. Divided into two books. The first containing cures physical; the 2d, all cures chirurgical. Together with the nature, use and quality of every simple mentioned through the whole work. Now the twenty-first 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 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

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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, and approv'd experience, and the publick practice of the best horse-marshals in Christendom. Divided into two books. The first containing cures physical; the 2d, all cures chirurgical. Together with the nature, use and quality of every simple mentioned through the whole work. Now the twenty-first 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 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
• Markhams maister-peece

People / Organizations

• Gervase Markham (Author)

Imprint

London : printed for J. Hazard, at the Bible, in Stationers-Court, near Stationers-Hall, M.D.CC.XXXIV. [1734]

Publication year

1734

ESTC No.

N4445

Grub Street ID

29860

Description

[8], 318, iii,2-64 p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 4°.

Note

At end of imprint: Price 4s

With an additional title page with a woodcut border, title beginning: "Markham's' master-piece: ...".