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Period 17th century

Subject Terms Horses -- Diseases -- Early works to 1800.

1. Markham's master-piece revived : 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. The I. containing cures physical; the II. all cures chirurgical: together with the nature, use and quality of every simple mentioned through the whole work. Now the fourteenth time printed, corrected and augmented with above thirty new chapters, and forty new medicines heretofore never publish'd. To which is added by way of appendix, The countrey-man's care for his other cattle, containing the exactest receipts for curing all diseases in oxen, cows, sheep, hogs, goats, and all smaller cattel, with many new additions. And now in this impression is added The compleat jockey; containing methods for the training of horses up for racing; with their heats and courses, and manner of keeping, &c. Also instructions to the buyers, to avoid cheating horse-coursers; and all things necessary for gentlemen, and others. Never before made publick.

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Creator:: Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:: 1688
Physical Description:: [16], 80 p., pp. 79-394, [2], 26, 49, [3] p. : ill. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The compleat horseman and expert ferrier : In two bookes. The first, shewing the best manner of breeding good horses, with their choyce, nature, riding and dyeting, as well for running as hunting, and how the rider ought to behave himselfe in the breaking and riding of colts, as also teaching the groome and keeper his true office, touching the horses and colts committed to his charge, and prescribing the best manner how a perfect stable ought to be scituated and made, not hitherto so fully described by any. The second, directing the most exact and approved manner how to know and cure all maladies and diseases in horses: a worke containing the secrets and best skill belonging either to ferrier or horse-leech: the cures placed alphabetically: with many hundreds of medicines never before imprinted in any author. Published at the earnest request of sundry noble and worthy gentlemen, for the generall good and benefit of the whole kingdome: and dedicated to His most excellent Majestie / By Thomas de Gray Esquire.

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Creator:: De Grey, Thomas
Date:: 1639
Physical Description:: [32], 356, [8] p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Markhams maister-peece : Contayning all knowledge belonging to the smith, farrier, or horse-leech, touching the curing of all diseases in horses: drawne with great paine, and most approved experience, from the publicke practise of all the forraine horse-marshals in Christendome; and from the private practise 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.

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Creator:: Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:: 1636
Physical Description:: [16], 588, 599-601, [15] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The horse-mans honour: or, The beautie of horse-man-ship : As the choise, natures, breeding, breaking, riding, and dieting, whether outlandish or English horses. With the true, easie, cheape, and most approued manner, how to know and cure all diseases in any horse whatsoeuer. Not innented [sic] and drawn from forraigne nations, but by long experience and knowledge of many yeares practise: and now published at the request of diuers honorable and worthy persons, for the generall good of this noble nation of Great Britaine.

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Creator:: Morgan, Nicholas, of Crolane
Date:: 1620
Physical Description:: [16], 188, 191-255, 266-288, 288-295, 295-343, 144-145, [1] p. : ill. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Cauelarice, or The English horseman : contayning all the arte of horse-manship, as much as is necessary for any man to vnderstand, whether he be horse-breeder, horse-ryder, horse-hunter, horse-runner, horse-ambler, horse-farrier, horse-keeper, coachman, smith, or sadler. Together, with the discouery of the subtill trade or mistery of horse-coursers, & an explanatio[n] of the excellency of a horses vndersta[n]ding, or how to teach them to doe trickes like Bankes his curtall: and that horses may be made to drawe drie-foot like a hound. Secrets before vnpublished, & now carefully set down for the profit of this whole nation / by Geruase Markham.

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Creator:: Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:: 1607
Physical Description:: [16], 88, [4], 212, 233-264, [4], 67, 58-72, [4], 54, [4], 56, [4], 64, [4], 11, 10-81, [5], 20, 25-40 p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Georgii Simonis Winteri, Hippiater expertus, seu Medicina equorum absolutissima, tribus libris comprehensa : quorum I. Agit de equorum temperamentis; aetate cognoscendâ; morbis omnibus internis capitis; oculorum; aurium; narium; linguae; dentium; oris; aliisq́ue his similibus: II. De affectibus internis thoracis & abdominis nempe pulmonum & cordis; itemq́ue hepatis; lienis; ventriculi; intestinorum; renum; vesicae; nec non de purgatione equorum & pabulatione per gramen; de clysteribus; suppositoriis; de febribus & de peste. III. De omnis generis unguentis; oleis; balsamis & emplastris in genere; item de quibuscunque morbis ac symptomatibus externis; ut: tumoribus, ulceribus & vulneribus cujuscunque generis; ungularum etiam vitiis; fracturâ & luxatione ossium; medicamentorum ad horum morborum curationem necessariorum variis formulis; de venae sectione; de affectibus nervorum &c. Non minus ex probatissimis authoribus congesta, quàm propriâ multorum annorum experientiâ longâq́[ue] praxi stabilita, & multis figuris aeneis elegantissimis, remq́[ue] ipsam miro artificio clarissimè ob oculos ponentibus exornata, & in gratiam exterarum quoque gentium ex vernacula in Latinam translata, nuncq́[ue] primùm typis exscripta.

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Creator:: Winter, Georg Simon, b. ca. 1634
Date:: Anno MDCLXXVIII [1678]
Physical Description:: [16], 490, [10] p. : ill., port. ; 34 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. The Gentleman's jocky and approved farrier : instructing, in the natures, causes, and cures of all diseases incident to horses. With an exact and easie method of breeding, buying, dieting and otherwise ordering all sorts of horses, as well for common and ordinary use; as the heats and course. With divers other curiosities / collected by the long practice, experience and pains of J.H. Esquire; T.D. N.S. R.B. J.W. and others.

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Creator:: Halfpenny, John, active 1671
Date:: 1671
Physical Description:: [16], 300, [4] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 17 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts