Cheap and good husbandry, for the well-ordering of all beasts and fowls, and for the general cure of their diseases. : Containing the natures, breeding, choice, use, feeding, and curing of the diseases of all manner of cattel, as horse, ox, cow, sheep, goats, swine, and tame conies. Shewing further the whole art of riding great horses, with the breaking and ordering of them, and the dyeting of the running, hunting, and ambling horse, and the manner how to use them in their travel. Also, approved rules for the cramming, and fatting all sorts of poultry, and fowls, both tame and wild, &c. And divers good and well approved medicines, for the cure of all diseases in hawks, of what kind soever. Together with the use and profit of bees, the manner of fishponds, and the taking of all sorts of fish. Gathered together for the general good and profit of the common-wealth, by exact and assured experience from English practices, both ceatain, easie, and cheap; differing from all former and forrain experiments, which either agreed not with our clime, or were too hard to come by, or over-costly, and to little purpose; all which herein are avoided. Newly corrected and enlarged with many excellent additions.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | The thirteenth edition. |
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| Item Description: | "Epistle dedicatory" signed: G.M. [i.e. Gervase Markham]. Signatures: pi² B-X⁴ Mis-numbering: 24 for 32, 94 for 100, |
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| Physical Description: | 8 unnumbered pages, 146 pages, 10 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 20 cm |