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| Genre/Form: | Early works to 1800 |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Gervase Markham; Nicholas Boddington; M Boddington; George Conyers; Matthew Wotton; Edward Lasker; Cynthia Lasker |
| OCLC Number: | 54426796 |
| Notes: | Signatures: [A]-2Z⁴ 3B-3C⁴ Pagination errors: p. 136, 250-251, 254-255, 281-288 are misnumbered as 138, 150-151, 154-155, and 297-304 respectively. Variant of ESTC T122444. "Price 4 s." Edition statement from half-title. Half-title, within illustrated, woodcut frame. "The cut or figure explained"--Verso half-title. "The compleat jockey", p. 2, 25-40, 49-64 at end. Pointed hands printed in the margins. Includes index. |
| Description: | [8], 56, 65-72, 65-318, iii, 2-22, 2, 25-40, 49-64 p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 23 cm. (4to) |
| Other Titles: | Markhams maister-peece |
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Add tags for "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 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 chyrurgical. Together with the nature, use, and quality of every simple mentioned through the whole work. Now the nineteenth time printed, corrected and augmented, with above thirty new chapters, and forty new medicines, heretofore never published. To which is added, the exactest receipts for curing all diseases, in oxen, cows, sheep, hogs, goats, dogs, and all small 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 nineteenth 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 way to improve St-Foin. With divers other things never before made publick.".
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- Horses -- Early works to 1800.
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