The complete sportsman; or, country gentleman's recreation : containing the whole arts of breeding and managing game cocks with the vest methods of fighting them. Of rearing and backing colts. Of managing race-horses, hunters, &c. Of horse racing. Of bowling. Of hare-hunting. Of fox-hunting. Of buck-hunting. Of otter-hunting. Of coursing. Of breeding and ordering dogs for the gun or chase, &c. Of angling in all its various branches. Of breeding pigeons, rabbets, canary birds, &c. Of finding the haunts of partridges, pheasants, and all manner of game. Of shooting, and of shooting flying, &c. Together with several other equally curious articles, too numerous to be mentioned in this title page /
| Main Author: | Fairfax, Thomas, Esq |
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