Cheape and good husbandry for the vvell-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, ... 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 li

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• Cheape and good husbandry for the vvell-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, ... 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 li
• Cheape and good husbandry for the well-ordering of all beasts, and fowles, and for the generall cure of their diseases

People / Organizations

• Gervase Markham (Author)

Imprint

London: printed by T[homas]. S[nodham]. for Roger Iackson, and are to be sold at his shop neere the Conduit in Fleetstreet, 1623.

Publication year

1623-1623

ESTC No.

S112039

Grub Street ID

131804

Description

[24], 179, [1] p. ; 4⁰

Note

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

Printer's name from STC.

The first leaf is blank except for a fleuron.

Includes an abridgment of his "How to chuse, ride, trayne, and dyet, both hunting horses and running horses" (STC 17350), which was in turn an enlarged edition of his: A discource of horsmanshippe.

Uncontrolled note

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