Cheape and good husbandry for the well-ordering of all beasts and fowles, and for the generall cure of their diseases. Containing the natures, breeding, choice, use, feeding, and curing of the diseases of all manner of cattell as horse, oxe, cow, sheepe, goats, swine, and tame conies. ... 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 use them in their travaile. Also approoved rules for the cramming, and fatting of all sorts of poultry, and fowles, both tame, and wild, &c. And ... medicines, for the cure of all the diseases in hawkes, ... Together with the use, and profit of bees, the making of fish-ponds, and the taking of all sorts of fish. Gathered together ... from English practises, ... differing from all former and fotraign [sic] experiments, which either agreed not with our clime, or were too hard to come by, or over-costly, and to little purpose: ... newly corrected

People / Organizations

• Iohn Harrison ("printed for")
• Gervase Markham (Author)
• Bernard Alsop ("printed by")

Imprint

Printed at London: by Bernard Alsop, for Iohn Harrison, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard, 1648.

Publication year

1648-1648

ESTC No.

R180363

Grub Street ID

71437

Description

[26], 188 p. ; 4⁰

Note

Dedication signed: G.M., i.e. Gervase Markham.

Uncontrolled note

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