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GERVASE MARKHAM Markham’s Master-piece: Containing All Knowledge belonging to the Smith, Farrier, or Horse-Leach, touching the curing of all Diseases in HORSES. Divided into Two Books. The First, Containing all Cures Physical. The Second, All belonging to Chirurgery. TLondon, G. Conyers & J. Clarke, 1734. 4to, pp. (8), 318, ii, 64. Later leather, rebacked and with remains of older blind-tooled covers mounted, gilt-lettered spine. Illustrated. 21st edition. The 2nd title amplified with: "Together with The nature, Use, and Quality of every Simple mentioned through the whole work. Now the Twenty-First 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 Cows, Oxen, Sheep, Hogs, Goats, Dogs and all small cattle. Also The Compleat Jockey; Containing metthods for the training up Horses for Racing, with their Heats and Courses, Manner of Keeping, &c. Also Instructions to avoid being cheated by Horse-Coursers. To which is added in this Twenty-First Impression Directions to preserve all Sorts of Cattle from all Manner of Diseases and to feed Cattle fat without Corn, Hayor Grass. Also the Way to improve St. Foin. With divers other Things, never before made publick".Gervase Markham (1568 ? - 1637), a poet and author of a number of popular works on sports and country life. He owned several valuable horses and seems to have imported the first Arab. The 1st edition of this work was published in 1610. With woodcut title-page with 10 woodcut illustrations (depicting different aspects of horse-raising and treatment) around the central title, five full-page woodcuts (depicting the anatomy of the horse including its skeleton and a plate depicting the instruments used by farriers) and several smaller ones. The first book (of cures physical) covers pp. 1-124 and ends with its table. The 2nd book (of Cures Chyrurgical), on pp. 125-318, begins with the anatomical plates and has also a table at the end. This is followed by an appendix (pp. 1-22) on the curing of alll diseases in Oxen, Cows, Sheep &c. and finally The Compleat Jockey (pp. 23-64), also with its table at the end. This work enjoyed a huge popularity and was often "read-to-pieces"; accordingly it is nowadays a very rare work. In view of that, our copy is an excellent one. But as usual it is somewhat browned, binding is rebacked and the side margins of the first 4 leaves are (very professionally) restored (by Arthur W. Johnson, A.T.D. in 1964).
Offered for EUR 650.00 = appr. US$ 930.80 by: Zaal Books - Book number: 12937