Markhams maister-peece : containing all knowledge belonging to the smith, farrier, or horse-leech, touching the curing of all diseases in horses : drawne ... from the publick practise of all the forraigne horse-marshals in Christendome, and from the private practise of all the best farriers of this land : being divided into two bookes, the first containing all cures physicall, the second all belonging to chyrurgery : with an addition of 160 principall chapters, and 370 most excellent medicines, never written of, nor mentioned in any author whatsoever : together with the true nature, use, and quality of every simple spoken of through the whole worke ... / written by Gervase Markham.

Creator:

Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.

Timespan:

1651

Date:

1651

Description:

Fairman Rogers copy imperfect: t.p., 6 prelims., and p. [8]-[9] third count wanting.; Fairman Rogers copy has table of contents, p. [10]-[23] third count misbound before p. 1.; Fairman Rogers copy closely cropped at upper margin with some loss of text; six leaves at end torn at lower margin with some loss of text.; Fairman Rogers copy has ms. notes on front and back endpapers.

Identifier:

9915398693503681; (OCoLC)ocm79242485; (OCoLC)79242485; (CStRLIN)PAUG93-B4335; 1539869; (PU)1539869-penndb-Voyager

Language:

English

Provenance:

Greenfield, Geo. W. (autograph, Philadelphia, 1908) (Fairman Rogers copy); Robbins, Jeremiah (inscription, March 25, 1776) (Fairman Rogers copy); Gorman, Dr. (inscription) (Fairman Rogers copy); Marshall, C. J. (donor) (Fairman Rogers copy); Robins, James (inscription, May 12, 1823?) (Fairman Rogers copy)

Publisher:

Imprinted at London : By William Wilson ..., 1651.

Subject:

Horses -- Anatomy.; Veterinary medicine.; Horses -- Anatomy -- Early works to 1800.; Horses -- Diseases.; Horses -- Diseases -- Early works to 1800.; Veterinary medicine -- Early works to 1800.

Resource Type:

Books

Physical Description:

16 unnumbered pages, 591 pages, 23 unnumbered pages : illustrations; 19 cm (4to)

Personal Name:

Wilson, William, -1665.

Corporate Name:

Fairman Rogers Collection (University of Pennsylvania); Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Geographic Subject:

England -- London.

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?

Notes:

A reprint of the 1643 (i. e. 1644) edition printed by John Okes.; Added engraved title page with illustrative border has altered impression number and imprint. (Johnson: Elstrack no. 9); Numerous errors in pagination.; Second part has special t.p.; Woodcuts: initials; head- and tail-pieces.

Physical Location:

EC M3418 610mh 619.1 M344 1651

Collection:

Fairman Rogers Collection (University of Pennsylvania); Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)