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. 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 use them in their travell. Also, approved rules for the cramming, and fatting of all sorts of poultry, and fowls, both tame and wild, &c. And divers good and well approved medecines, for the cure of all the diseases in hawkes, of what kind soever. Together with the use and profit of bees, the manner of fish-ponds, and the taking of all sorts of fish. Gathered together for the generall good and profit of this common-wealth, by exact & assured experience from English practices, both certain, easie, and cheap, differing from all former & forrain experiments, which either agreed not with our clime, or were too hard to come by, or over-costly, & to little purpose: all which herein are avoyded. Newly corrected and inlarged with many excellent additions..
Markham, Gervase,1568?-1637.
Harris, John,active 1657,former owner.StEdNL
Griffith, John,active 1769,former owner.StEdNL
London, : printed by W. Wilson, for E. Brewster, and George-Sawbridge ...,
1657..
Dedication signed: G.M., i.e. Gervase Markham.
Contemporary hand on p. [6] reads "John Harris his book". Inscription on p. 143 reads "John Griffith his hand June 25th yr. 1769".
ESTC
Veterinary medicine
Bees
Fish-culture
Horsemanship