The sportsman's dictionary : or, the gentlemen's companion : for town and country. Containing full and particular instructions for riding, hunting, fowling, setting, fishing, racing, farriery, cocking, hawking, &c. With the vairous methods to be observed in the breeding and dieting of horses both for the road and turf; also, the management of dogs, game-cocks, dunghill fowls, turkeys, geese, ducks, pigeons, singing-birds, &c. And the manner of curing their various diseases and accidents. Collected from the best authors with very considerable additions and improvements, by experienced gentlemen. Illustrated with copper-plates, representing all the different kinds of nets, snares, and traps, that are now made use of.

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Item Description:Signatures: 4 leaves, unsigned, B-3O⁴.
Physical Description:viii, 236 leaves : XVI plates, inc. frontispiece, illustrations ; 28 cm.