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MARKHAM (Gervais). Le Nouveau et sçavant mareschal, dans lequel est traité de la composition, de la nature, des qualitez, perfections, & defauts des chevaux [...] L'anatomie du corps du cheval avec les figures. Un nouveau traité du haras, qui enseigne le moyen d'élever de tres-beaux & bons chevaux [...]. An excellent treatise on shoeing & restoring bad feet, & preserving good ones [...]. Traduction du Celebre Markam gentilhomme anglois, par le sieur de FOUBERT, Escuyer du Roy & l'un des Chefs de l'Academie Royale de la ruë Sainte Marguerite. Paris, Ribou, 1666. 3 parts in one small volume in-4, brown calf, spine ribbed and decorated (period binding). Binding damaged. Moisture and worm damage to first and last leaves, scattered spotting and spotting. First French edition. 6 engraved plates, one of which folding, and a few figures in the text. Lacks engraved title. One finds in this curious and prolix work all the extravagances of the ancient marshals, their bizarre and barbaric rem-des, their belief in the influence of the stars, their procedures for making the mare produce a male or a female at will, for recognizing gestation, etc. [...]" (M. M.). (Mennessier de La Lance, II, 156-157).

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MARKHAM (Gervais). Le Nouveau et sçavant mareschal, dans lequel est traité de la composition, de la nature, des qualitez, perfections, & defauts des chevaux [...] L'anatomie du corps du cheval avec les figures. Un nouveau traité du haras, qui enseigne le moyen d'élever de tres-beaux & bons chevaux [...]. An excellent treatise on shoeing & restoring bad feet, & preserving good ones [...]. Traduction du Celebre Markam gentilhomme anglois, par le sieur de FOUBERT, Escuyer du Roy & l'un des Chefs de l'Academie Royale de la ruë Sainte Marguerite. Paris, Ribou, 1666. 3 parts in one small volume in-4, brown calf, spine ribbed and decorated (period binding). Binding damaged. Moisture and worm damage to first and last leaves, scattered spotting and spotting. First French edition. 6 engraved plates, one of which folding, and a few figures in the text. Lacks engraved title. One finds in this curious and prolix work all the extravagances of the ancient marshals, their bizarre and barbaric rem-des, their belief in the influence of the stars, their procedures for making the mare produce a male or a female at will, for recognizing gestation, etc. [...]" (M. M.). (Mennessier de La Lance, II, 156-157).

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