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COUNTRY CONTENTMENTS OR THE HUSBANDMANS RECREATIONS.
by MARKHAM, Gervase.:
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, printed by William Wilson, for John Harison, in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1649.. TITLE CONTINUED: Contayning the Wholesome Experiences in which any man ought to recreate himselfe, after the toyle of more serious businesse. As namely, Hunting, Hawking, Coursing with Greyhounds, and the lawes of Lease, Shooting in Long-bow or Cros-bowe, Bowling, Tennis, Baloone. The whole Art of Angling, and the use of the Fighting Cocke. 6th Edition, Newly Corrected, Enlarged and Adorned with many excellent Additions, 1649. 8vo, approximately 190 x 140 mm, 7½ x 5¾ inches, pages: [8], 1-118, lacks first free endpaper but retains 2 original endpapers at rear, woodcut printer's device to title page and final page, decorated initials, rebound in quarter calf, marbled boards, vertical gilt lettered morocco label to spine, gilt date to foot of spine and a little gilt decoration, new black endpapers. Title page dusty, tiny closed tear repaired, small nick to outer edge, tip of lower corner missing, pale stain to top corner of title page and page 1, pale age-browning throughout, occasional small brown spot or mark, otherwise a very good copy. Commonly found as part of Markham's A Way to Get Wealth. See: John Resler Swift, Bibliotheca Accipitraria II: A Catalogue of Books Ancient and Modern relating to Falconry, pages 204-205, No. 364; Schwerdt, Hunting, Hawking and Shooting, Volume 2, page 11; James Edmund Harting, Bibliotheca Accipitraria: A Catalogue of Books Ancient and Modern relating to Falconry, page 6, No. 4; Mary S. Aslin, Catalogue of the Printed Books on Agriculture Published Between 1471 and 1840, page 84; F.N.L. Poynter, A Bibliography of Gervase Markham, No. 23, pages 125-126. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
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- Bookseller
- Roger Middleton
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47751
- Title
- COUNTRY CONTENTMENTS OR THE HUSBANDMANS RECREATIONS.
- Author
- MARKHAM, Gervase.:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London, printed by William Wilson, for John Harison, in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1649.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- agriculture Hunting Hawking Falconry Coursing archery longbow crossbow tennis shooting angling fishing fighting cocks
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Roger Middleton
Biblio member since 2010
Oxford, Oxfordshire
About Roger Middleton
We are a postal business only, selling rare and antiquarian books on interesting subjects.
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