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Record Nr.

UNISA996384553803316

Autore

Markham Gervase <1568?-1637.>

Titolo

Markhams maister-peece [[electronic resource] ] : contayning all knowledge belonging to the smith, farrier, or horse-leech, touching the curing of all diseases in horses, drawn with great paine, and most approved experience, from the publick practice of all the forraigne horse-marshals in Christendome, and from the private practice of all the best farriers of this kingdome : being divided into two bookes : the first contayning 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, Gent

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Imprinted by John Okes ..., 1643

Edizione

[Now the sixt time newly imprinted, corrected and augmented, with above thirty new chapters, and above forty new medicines that are most certaine and approved, and heretofore never published, which you shall finde noted thus : all which never was before made knowne, but concealed in the authors breast for his owne credit.]

Descrizione fisica

[12], 591, [22] p., 1 folded leaf of plates : ill

Soggetti

Horses - Diseases

Horses - Anatomy

Horseshoeing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"The second booke" has special t.p. with printer's ornament. Cf. McKerrow 269.

Described in: A bibliography of Gervase Markham / F.N.L. Poynter, 1568?-1637. p. 106.

Added engraved t.p. and "The minde or meaning of the frontispeece" in verse on verso of engraved t.p.

Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0113