Markham's Master-piece revived
Subtitle: 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 ...  to which is added by way of appendix, The countryman's care for his other cattle : containing the exactest receipts for curing all diseases in oxen, cows, sheep, hogs, goats, and all smaller cattel [sic.], with many new additions : and now in this impression is added The compleat jockey ... never before made publick.
Edition: Now the thirteenth time printed, corrected and augmented with above thirty new chapters, and forty new medicines heretofore never publish'd
Publisher: Printed for John Wright ... and Thomas Passinger ...
Published: 1683
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 394
Subjects: Horses -- Diseases -- Treatment -- Early works to 1800.; Horses -- Diseases -- Treatment -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Cattle -- Diseases -- Treatment -- Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Markham's Masterpiece revived; Master-piece revived; Markhams Maister-peece; Countryman's care for his other cattle.; Complete jockey.
Notes: Gift; from Martha Nichols Hulet and Mary Nichols Story in memory of Jeptha H. Nichols, D.V.M.; 1996.
Poynter, F.N.L.  Gervasse Markham 20.13
Wing (2nd ed.) M664A
First English language veterinary manual to be considered standard work on the subject.  Cf. Poynter.
First issued under title: Markhams maister-peece, or, What doth a horse-man lacke (London : Printed by Nicholas Okes, 1610)
Imprint supplied from Poynter.
Signatures: A⁴ a⁴ B-3H⁴ 5A-5F⁴ 5G².
Errors in pagination: 252-256 for 152-156 and 47 for 49 (at end)
LC copy imperfect: some loss of text (including the imprint) from t.p.; leaves of first two gatherings separated and misbound; final leaf wanting; engraved t.p. (as in 11th printing, Poynter 20.11) reads: Markhams Maister-peece : containing all knowledge belonging to smith, farrier, or horse-leach, touching the curing of all diseases in horses ....
Table of contents: title: (from t.p., text supplied as needed from Poynter) The I. containing cures physical; title: The II. all cures chirurgical, together with the nature, use and quality of every simple mentioned through the whole work; title: The countryman's care for his other cattle; title: The compleat jockey.