Markhams̓ 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 publishd̓ : 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 ... to which is added ... directions to preserve all sorts of cattle, from all manner of diseases ..

Name:

Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1703

Language:

English

Provenance:

Penington, John & Son (booklabel, importers and booksellers, Philadelphia) (Fairman Rogers copy)

Publisher:

Printed for M. Wotton ... and G. Coniers ..

Subject:

Horses -- Diseases; Horsemanship; Veterinary medicine -- Early works to 1800; Veterinary medicine

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Advertisements; books

Physical Description:

10 unnumbered pages, 228, that is, 336 iii, i, 22, 37 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations; 21 cm (4to)

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Signatures: A-3E⁴ 3F².; Added engraved t.p. from 1st ed.; Pages 335-336 misnumbered 327-328 respectively.; Advertisements on first and last pages.; Fairman Rogers copy: Manuscript recipe (in cipher?) pasted to blank leaf inserted before p. 1.

Physical Location:

LIBRA, Fairman Rogers Collection, 619.1 M344 1703

Collection:

Fairman Rogers Collection (University of Pennsylvania)