Markham's method, or epitome : Wherein is shewed his approved remedies for all diseases whatsoever incident to horses, and they almost 300. all cured with twelve medicines only, not of twelve pence cost, and to be got commonly every where. Also for curing of all oxen, kine, bulls, calves, sheep, lambs, goats, swine, dogs of all kinds, conies, all sorts of poultry, all water-fowl, as geese, ducks, swans, and the like; pigeons, all singing birds, hawks of all kinds; and other creatures serviceable for the use of man. Divided into twelve general points or heads. By Gervase Markham, gentleman.

  • Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
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1671
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Cheape and good husbandry for the well-ordering of all beasts, and fowles, and for the generall cure of their diseases. Abridgments

Publication/Creation

London : printed for William Thackeray, and are to be sold at his shop in Duck-Lane, 1671.

Physical description

10 unnumbered pages, 67, 67-70, 70-85 pages : illustrations (woodcuts).

Edition

The tenth edition

Notes

With an added illustrated title page.
An abridgment of STC 17336: Cheape and good husbandry for the well-ordering of all beasts, and fowles, and for the generall cure of their diseases, published in 1614.
Signatures: A-F.
Text is continuous despite pagination.
Tightly bound, with some pages torn affecting page numbering and text.
With an index.
Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

References note

Wing (2nd ed.) M668.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1917:6) s1999 miun s

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