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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.

Author/Creator:
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.
Publication:
Imprinted at London : By William Wilson ..., 1651.
Format/Description:
Book
16 unnumbered pages, 591 pages, 23 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm (4to)
Edition:
Now the seventh time newly imprinted, corrected, and augmented, with above thirty new chapters, and above forty new medicines ...
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Subjects:
Horses -- Diseases -- Early works to 1800.
Horses -- Diseases.
Horses -- Anatomy -- Early works to 1800.
Veterinary medicine -- Early works to 1800.
Veterinary medicine.
Horses -- Anatomy.
Place of Publication:
England London.
Notes:
Added engraved title page with illustrative border has altered impression number and imprint. (Johnson: Elstrack no. 9)
A reprint of the 1643 (i. e. 1644) edition printed by John Okes.
Numerous errors in pagination.
Second part has special t.p.
Woodcuts: initials; head- and tail-pieces.
Local notes:
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 has ms. notes on front and back endpapers.
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.
Penn Provenance:
Robbins, Jeremiah (inscription, March 25, 1776) (Fairman Rogers copy)
Robins, James (inscription, May 12, 1823?) (Fairman Rogers copy)
Greenfield, Geo. W. (autograph, Philadelphia, 1908) (Fairman Rogers copy)
Gorman, Dr. (inscription) (Fairman Rogers copy)
Marshall, C. J. (donor) (Fairman Rogers copy)
Penn Chronology:
1651
Cited in:
Fox, C.G. The Fairman Rogers Coll. on the horse and equitation, 514
Contributor:
Wilson, William, -1665.
Fairman Rogers Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)
OCLC:
79242485