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 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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Markham, Gervase
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London printed for M. Wotton, at the Three Daggers in Fleet-Street; and G. Conyers, at the Golden-Ring in Little-Britain 1710, 1710
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Online Access:
Collection: Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Description
Item Description:A variant has master-piece in the title. - English Short Title Catalog, T121688. - Price from imprint: Price 3 s. 6 d. - Reproduction of original from British Library. - The appendix and the compleat jockey are separately paginated; the register is continuous throughout. - With an initial leaf of advertisements and an additional titlepage, engraved
Physical Description:Online-Ressource ([8],336,iii,i,22,39,[1]p.,plate) ill 4°