Cheape and good husbandry for the well-ordering of all beasts, and fowles, and for the generall cure of their diseases. Contayning the natures, breeding, choise, vse, feeding, and curing of the diseases of all manner of cattell, as horse, oxe, cow, sheepe, goates, swine, and tame conies. Shewing further, the whole art of riding great-horses ... and the dieting of the running, hunting, and ambling horse ... Also, approued rules, for the cramming and fatting of all sorts of poultry and fowles ... Together with the vse and profit of bees: the making of fish-ponds, an the taking of all sorts of fish. Gathered together for the generall good and profit of this whole realme, ... differing from all former and forraine experiments, which eyther agreed not with our clime, or were to too [sic] hard to come by, or ouer-costly, and to little purpose: all which herein ar auoyded. Newly corrected and inlarged with many excellent aditions, as may appeare by this marke.
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London: printed by Nicholas Okes for Iohn Harison, and are to be sold at his shop in Pater-noster-row, 1631.
- Publication year
- 1631-1631
- ESTC No.
- S121247
- Grub Street ID
- 140841
- Description
- [28], 133, 136-188, [2] p. ; 4⁰
- Note
- Dedication signed: G.M., i.e. Gervase Markham.
Printer's name from STC.
First leaf and last leaf are blank.
Includes an abridgment of his "How to chuse, ride, trayne, and dyet, both hunting horses and running horses" (STC 17350), which was in turn an enlarged edition of his: A discource of horsmanshippe.
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- Rpm 12/02/96