The gentlemans recreation : in two parts : the first being an encyclopedy of the arts and sciences ... the second part treats of horsmanship, hawking, hunting, fowling, fishing, and agriculture : with a short treatise of cock-fighting ... : all which are collected from the most authentick authors, and the many gross errors therein corrected, with great enlargements ... : and for the better explanation thereof, great variety of useful sculptures, as nets, traps, engines, &c. are added for the taking of beasts, fowl and fish : not hitherto published by any : the whole illustrated with about an hundred ornamental and useful sculptures engraven in copper, relating to the several subjects.
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| Format: | Microform Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Early English books, 1641-1700 ;
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| Item Description: | Added engraved title page. Dedication signed: Richard Blome. Part 2 has special title page and separate paging with imprint: London : Printed for the Undertaker Richard Blome, 1686. Reproduction of original in Huntington Library. Approbation of Charles II, "given ... the 14th day of February 1682/3," first preliminary leaf; engraved coats of arms of the "Benefactors to this work," f. 1-10. Microform. |
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| Physical Description: | 2 parts (16 unnumbered pages, 236 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 280 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 103 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, charts, coats of arms, plans. |