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Country contentments, or, The husbandmans recreations : containing the wholesome experience in which any ought to recreate himselfe after the toyle of more serious business : as namely hunting, hawking, coursing with greyhounds, and the lawes of the lease, shooting in long-bow or cross-bow, bouling, tennis, baloon : the whole art of angling and the use of the fighting cock / by G.M.
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637Date: 1660
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The school of recreation: or, a guide to the most ingenious exercises of hunting, riding, racing, Fireworks. Military Discipline. The Science of Defence. Hawking. Tennis. Bowling. Ringing. Singing. Cock-Fighting. Fowling. Angling. By R. H.
R. H. (Robert Howlett).Date: 1701
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Recreations for gentlemen and ladies: being ingenious sports and pastimes: containing many curious inventions, pleasant tricks on cards and dice; Arithmetical Sports; new Games; Rules for assuredly winning at all Games, whether of Cards or Dice; Recreative Fire-Works; Tricks to promote Diversion in Company, and other curiosities. Translated from the French, of Monsieur Ozanam.
Ozanam, Jacques, 1640-1717.Date: 1790
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The school of recreation: or, a guide to the most ingenious exercises of hunting, riding, racing, Fireworks, Military Discipline, The Science of Defence. Hawking, Tennis, Bowling, Ringing, Singing, Cock-Fighting. Fowling, Angling. By R. H.
R. H. (Robert Howlett).Date: 1710
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A treatise on English shooting; Under the following heads: of the knowledge of a good fowling-piece. The ordering and managing the fowling-piece. The appendages of the fowling-piece. The choice of powder, shot, and flints. Of partridge shooting, with the choice and ordering of pointers. Of pheasant shooting, with the ordering of spaniels. Of woodcock shooting. Of snipe shooting. Of water, and fen-fowl shooting; and the use of proper dogs. Of upland winter shooting. With necessary observations for the young sportsman, when out, and on returning home. By George Edie, gent.
Edie, George.Date: 1774

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Physical education and training - Early works to 1800

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The school of recreation: or, a guide to the most ingenious exercises of hunting, riding, racing, Fireworks. Military Discipline. The Science of Defence. Hawking. Tennis. Bowling. Ringing. Singing. Cock-Fighting. Fowling. Angling. By R. H.

The school of recreation: or, a guide to the most ingenious exercises of hunting, riding, racing, Fireworks, Military Discipline, The Science of Defence. Hawking, Tennis, Bowling, Ringing, Singing, Cock-Fighting. Fowling, Angling. By R. H.