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, with the breaking and ordering of them : and the dieting of the running, hunting, and ambling horse, and the manner how to vse them in their trauaile : also, approued rules, for the cramming and fatting of all sorts of poultry and fowles, both tame and wilde, &c. : and diuers good and well-approued medicines, for the cure of all the diseases in hawkes, of what kinde soeuer : together with the vse and profit of bees: the making of fish-ponds, and the taking of all sorts of fish " gathered together for the generall good and profit of this whole realme, by exact and assured experience from English practises, both certaine, easie, and cheape: differing from all former and forraine experiments, which eyther agreed not with our clime, or were too hard to come by, or ouer-costly and to little purpose: all which herein are auoyded.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Printed by T.S[nodham] for Roger Iackson, and are to be sold at his shop neere the Conduit in Fleetstreet,
1616.
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| Item Description: | "The epistle dedicatory" and "To the courteous reader" signed: G.M. [i.e. Gervase Markham]. Printer's name from STC. First leaf is blank except for signature mark [fleuron]; last leaf is blank. Woodcut head-pieces; woodcut initials. Signatures: pi⁴ A-2B⁴. Bound with A new orchard and garden (1618), The husbandmans fruitfull orchard (1609), Countrey contentments (title page missing, 1615?), The English hus-wife (title page missing, 1615?) |
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| Physical Description: | [24], 182, [2] pages ; 20 cm (4to) |
| Place of Publication: | Great Britain -- England -- London. |