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Markhams methode, or epitome : wherein is shevved his approoued remedies for all diseases whatsoeuer, incident to horses, oxen, kine, buls, calues, sheepe, lambs, goats, swine, dogs of all kinde, conies, all sorts of poultrie, all water-fowle, as geese, ducks, swans, and the like, pigeons, all singing birds, hawks of all kinde; and other creatures seruiceable for the vse of man. Deuided into twelue generall points or heads. By Gervase Markham. Gentleman.
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637Date: 1616- Books
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A display of nature; in dialogues: arranged under the following heads: The Firmament, and the Heavenly Bodies. The Air, Wind, Rain, Frost, Thunder and Lightening, &c. The Earth, Man, The Human Body, The Internal Part of the Human Body. The Human Soul, Land and Water, Animals, Birds, Fishes, Insects, Plants and their Properties, Flowers, Seeds, The Seasons-Grass,-Corn, &c. The Produce of other Countries, and their Use in Merchandize, by Doctor Martinet, Professor of Philosophy at Zutphen. Translated from the Dutch, by John Hall, Minister of the English Church in Rotterdam.
Martinet, J.F. (Johannes Florentius), 1729-1795.Date: [1790]- Books
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Markhams methode or epitome : wherein is shewed his aprooued remedies for all diseases whatsoeuer incident to horses, oxen, kine, bulls, calues, sheep, lambs, goats, swine, dogs of all kind, conies, all sorts of poultrye, all water-foule, as geese, ducks, swans, and the like) pigeons, all singing birds, hawks of all kind; and other creatures seruice-able for the vse of man: deuided into twelue generall points or heads. By Gervase Markham. Gentleman.
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637Date: [1616?]- Books
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Sports and pastime: or, Hocus-Pocus improv'd. Shewing, 1. To turn water into wine. 2. To convey a card out of a nut-shell. 3. To catch birds. 4. To take Eels. 5. To make sport with an Egg 6. To fetch a Shilling out of a Handkerchief. 7. To wring Beer out of the Handle of a Knife. 8. Tricks with Tobacco-Pipes. 9. To win at Racing. 10. To know Cross or Pile by the Sound of Money. 11. To wrap one's Knuckles. 12. To make you laugh till the Tears stand in your Eyes. 13. To fox Fish. 14. A Philosoph-Experiment: 15. To cure the Tooth-Ach. 16. To bring 2 Pieces together 17. To win a Wager by feeling, 18. To take Conies. 19. To catch Wild-Ducks. 20. Sport with a Maid. 21. To make Liquor boil out of a Pot. 22. To prevent frothing Pots. 23. To Hatch-Chickens without a Hen. 24. Make it freeze by the Fire. 25. To take a String off a Pipe 26. To make good Sport. 27. To strike Chalks through a Table. 28. To convey Money away. 29. To play the wag with a Servant-Maid. 30. To make Sport with Bells. 31. Meat to seem Magotty. 32. To write invisible. 33. To cut the Blowing-Book. 34. To Engrave 35. The Egg-Box. 36. The Melting-Box. 37. The Globe-Box. 38. To cut Cloth, and make it whole again. 39. To make a Knife leap out of a Pot. 40. To take Buttons off a string 41. To cut Glass. 42. The Mosaick Rod. 43. To draw an Egg through a Ring. 44. To put Pease in your Eye. 45. Harts-Horn to make grow. 46. To write in a Dark-Night. 47. To walk on a hot Iron. 48. To eat Fire. 49. A Room to seem on fire. 50. To have a Sallad grow while the Meat roasts. 51. An Egg to fly in the air. 52. A sheet of paper call'd trouble-wit. With divers other legerdemain curiosities.
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A bird: a dipper. Coloured engraving.
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Two birds, an avocet and spoonbill, by a pond. Engraving.
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Two birds: a rose ouzel and a puffin. Coloured engraving.
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Birds living around a stone breakwater shown in their natural surroundings. Coloured lithograph by P. Trap.
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A peacock is bitten to death by a weasel with an apprehensively looking crowd of birds watching the gruelling scene from the safety of tree. Etching by J. E. Ridinger.
Ridinger, Johann Elias, 1698-1767.Reference: 39415i- Pictures
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Birds of the waterside shown in their natural surroundings. Coloured lithograph by P. Trap.
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Fifteen birds indigenous to France, including a snipe, kingfisher, hoopoe, cuckoo, heron and stork. Chromolithograph after M. Georges.
Georges, M.Reference: 43264i- Pictures
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Birds of the marsh and swamp shown in their natural surroundings. Coloured lithograph by P. Trap.
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Birdlife on the outlying waters of Cormorant's Island, The Netherlands. Lithograph by P. Trap.
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Birdlife on the inland waters of Cormorant's Island, The Netherlands. Coloured lithograph by P. Trap.
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A little crake bird. Etching by Eliza D.
D., Eliza.Reference: 42944i- Pictures
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Birds of the reed beds shown in their natural surroundings. Coloured lithograph by H. Schlegel.
Schlegel, H. (Hermann), 1804-1884.Date: 1860Reference: 43143i- Pictures
Three purple sandpipers (Arquatella maritima) Reproduction of a painting by J. J. Audubon, ca. 1827.
Audubon, John James, 1785-1851.Date: 1827Reference: 42786i- Pictures
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A moorhen. Etching with engraving.
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Two moor-hens. Etching, ca. 1775, after W. Hayes.
Hayes, W. (William), 1729-1799.Date: 1775Reference: 42967i- Pictures
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A common tern. Etching with engraving.
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Two chestnut jacanas. Etching with engraving.
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A cormorant. Etching with engraving.
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A popular view of the marsh-waters at Lichfield.
Date: 1841- Pictures
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Various birds by a pond, including terns, a heron and two cormorants. Etching after F. Barlow, ca. 1670.
Barlow, Francis, 1622-1704.Date: 1670Reference: 43294i- Pictures
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Various birds by a pond, including terns, a heron and two cormorants. Etching by W. Hollar after F. Barlow.
Barlow, Francis, 1622-1704.Date: 1670Reference: 42843i