Markhams maister-peece: . containing all knowledge belonging to the smith, farrier, or horse-leech, touching the curing of all diseases in horses: ... Being divided into two bookes. The first containing all cures physicall: the second, all belonging to chirurgery; ... Together with the true nature, use, and quality of every simple spoken of through the whole work. ... Written by Gervase Markham, Gent.
Gervase Markham (c.1569-1637)
Category
Books
Date
1656
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 3141947
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16],591,[23]p., [1] plate . ill.. . 4to.. Provenance: Eighteenth-century armorial bookplate, Curzon impaling Colyear, signed 'P. Mazell': 'Recte et Suaviter' (Franks 7705 2nd state- fine text) [Sir Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Baron Scarsdale (1726-1804) m. 1750 Lady Caroline Colyear]. Binding: Seventeenth-century full leather binding; double blind fillet border; spine blind ruled and spine label gilt lettered: "Markham's Masterpiece".
Makers and roles
Gervase Markham (c.1569-1637)