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The gentlemans recreation : in two parts : the first being an encyclopedy of the arts and sciences ... the second part treats of horsmanship, hawking, hunting, fowling, fishing, and agriculture : with a short treatise of cock-fighting .. : all which are collected from the most authentick authors, and the many gross errors therein corrected, with great enlargements ... : and for the better explanation thereof, great variety of useful sculptures, as nets, traps, engines, &c. are added for the taking of beasts, fowl and fish : not hitherto published by any : the whole illustrated with about an hundred ornamental and useful sculptures engraven in copper, relating to the several subjects.
Van Pelt - Microtext STC II Reel 375:10.
Mixed Availability
- Format:
- Microformat
- Author/Creator:
- Blome, Richard, 1635-1705.
- Series:
- Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 375:10.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries--Early works to 1800.
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries.
- Sports--Great Britain.
- Sports.
- Great Britain.
- Agriculture--Early works to 1800.
- Agriculture.
- Science--Early works to 1800.
- Science.
- Hunting--Early works to 1800.
- Hunting.
- Veterinary medicine--Early works to 1800.
- Veterinary medicine.
- Physical Description:
- 2 parts (16 unnumbered pages, 236 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 280 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 103 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, charts, coats of arms, plans
- 35 mm
- monochrome
- service copy
- positive
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed by S. Roycroft for Richard Blome ..., 1686.
- Notes:
- Added engraved t.p.
- Dedication signed: Richard Blome.
- Part 2 has special t.p. and separate paging with imprint: London : Printed for the Undertaker Richard Blome, 1686.
- Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.
- Approbation of Charles II, "given ... the 14th day of February 1682/3," first preliminary leaf; engraved coats of arms of the "Benefactors to this work," f. 1-10.
- Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms, 1971. 1 microfilm reel. 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 375:10)
- Cited in:
- Wing B3213
- T. Westwood and T. Satchell. Bib. piscatoria 1183, p. 35.
- OCLC:
- 12757085
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