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Hunting: a trap for a ploughed field (top), and details of a trap for roosting birds (below) Engraving, c.1762, by Prevost after L.J. Goussier.
Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799.Reference: 493498i- Books
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Maison rustique, or, the countrey farme / compyled in the French tongue by Charles Steuens, and Iohn Liebault ... and translated into English by Richard Surflet ... Now newly reuiewed, corrected, and augmented, with diuers large additions, out of the works of Serres his Agriculture, Vinet his Maison champestre, French, Albyterio [i.e. the 'Libro de albeyteria' of F. de la Reyna] in Spanish, Grilli [i.e. Gallo?] in Italian, and other authors. And the husbandry of France, Italie, and Spaine reconciled and made to agree with ours here in England: by Geruase Markham.
Estienne, Charles, 1504-approximately 1564.Date: 1616- Books
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Maison rustique, or the covntrey farme / compiled in the French tongue by Charles Steuens and John Liebault ... and translated into English by Richard Svrflet ... Also a short collection of the hunting of the hart, wilde bore, hare, fox, gray, cony; of birds and faulconrie.
Estienne, Charles, 1504-approximately 1564.Date: 1606- Books
Le vinti giornate dell'agricoltura, et de' piaceri della villa / Di M. Agostino Gallo.
Gallo, Agostino, 1499-1570.Date: 1628- Books
Delle caccie ... libro quattro, aggiuntovi 'n questa nuova impressione il quinto libro della villa / [Eugenio Raimondi].
Raimondi, Eugenio, active 17th century.Date: [1626]- Books
Le vinti giornate dell'agricoltura, et de' piaceri della villa / Di M. Agostino Gallo.
Gallo, Agostino, 1499-1570.Date: 1628- Pictures
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Goats being milked outside a farm and dogs setting off on a hunt; representing spring. Etching, 17--, after F.G. Bassano the younger.
Bassano, Francesco da Ponte, 1549-1592.Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 26432i- Books
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The whole art and trade of hvsbandry, contained in foure bookes. Viz: I. Of earable-ground, tillage, and pasture. II. Of gardens, orchards, and vvoods. III. Of feeding, breeding, and curing of all manner of cattell. IIII. Of poultrie, fowle, fish, and bees / Enlarged by Barnaby Googe.
Heresbach, Conrad, 1496-1576.Date: [1614]- Books
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Rei rvsticae libri qvatvor, vniversam rvsticam disciplinam complectentes, vnâ cum appendice oraculorum rusticorum, Coronidis vice adiecta. Accessit hvic postremae editioni à pluribus mendis repurgatae, operum rusticorum per singulos menses digestio, et vocum sententiarumqúe tam graecarum, quàm latinarum explicatio perspicua. Item, de venatione, avcvpio atqve piscatione compendium. In vsum heroum patrumqúe familiâs ruri degentium concinnatum / Auctore D D. Conrado Heresbachio.
Heresbach, Conrad, 1496-1576.Date: 1573- Pictures
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A country scene with many activities depicted: these include, from left to right, picking cherries, bathing, hay-making, hunting, and eating and drinking. Engraving by M. Merian after S. Vrancx.
Vrancx, Sebastian, 1573-1647.Reference: 485373i- Books
The new science of food : facing up to our biotechnology choices / [by Mark A. Edelman and David B. Patton] ; a project of Farm Foundation.
Edelman, Mark A.Date: [2003], ©2003- Books
The English husbandman drawne into two bookes, and each booke into two parts. The first part contayning the knowledge of husbandly duties ... The second part containing the art of planting, grafting, and gardening ... / Newlie reviewed, corrected, and inlarged by the first author, G.M.
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.Date: 1635- Books
Cheape and good hvsbandry for the well-ordering of all beasts, and fowles, and for the generall cure of their diseases. Contayning the natures, breeding, choise, vse, feeding, and curing of the diseases of all manner of cattell, as horse, oxe, cow, sheepe, goates, swine, and tameconies. 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 vse them in their trauaile. Also, approued rules, for the cramming and fatting of all sorts of poultrie and fowles, both tame and wild, &c. And diuers good and well-approued medicines, for the cure of all the diseases in hawkes, of what kind soeuer. Together, with the vse and profit of bees; the making of fish-ponds, and the taking of all sorts of fish.
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.Date: [1623]- Books
Foraging and farming : the evolution of plant exploitation / edited by David R. Harris and Gordon C. Hillman.
Date: 1989- Books
Human diet : its origin and evolution / edited by Peter S. Ungar and Mark F. Teaford.
Date: 2002- Books
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Diseases in animals (tick fever) : progress report on teh reproductive forms of the micro-organism of tick fever, with some observations on the relationships and nomenclature of that disease (16th December, 1897) / by J. Sidney Hunt.
Hunt J . Sidney.Date: [1897?]- Pictures
A rural landscape (near Mechelen?): men are building haystacks, sheep are driven along a country road, two women carry clumps of turnips, and other women walk home carrying rakes and a pitchfork. Engraving by F. Vivares, 1775, after Sir P. P. Rubens.
Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640.Date: 1775Reference: 2863609i- Books
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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.
Blome, Richard, 1635-1705Date: 1686- Books
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The compleat husbandman and gentleman's recreation : or, the whole art of husbandry; containing I. Directions to cure all diseases in horses, which are almost 300, with 12 medicines only not of 12d cost. Also to cure oxen. kine. bulls. calves. ... II. Directions to improve land. ... III. To brew pale ale and beer, ... IV. Of planting and raising trees for timber and fruit, ... V. To destroy moles, foxes and other vermin. VI. To heal all diseases in men or women with chew'd white bread. ... VII. Directions in angling. fowling. hawking. hunting. ringing, &c. By G. Markham gent.
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637Date: [1695]- Archives and manuscripts
'Where Parasites are hunted down'
Date: 25 May 1954Reference: WF/C/M/PC/06Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
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M0004210: Page from "Treatise on agriculture" by Maimonides
Date: April 1935Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/34/54Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
M0004210: Page from "Treatise on agriculture" by Maimonides
Date: April 1935Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/34/55Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Videos
In search of Eden.
Date: 2001- Books
Flora Londinensis. Or Plates and descriptions of such plants as grow wild in the environs of London: with their places of growth, and times of flowering; their several names according to Linnæus and other authors: with a particular description of each plant in Latin and English. To which are added, their several uses in medicine, agriculture, rural œconomy and other arts / By William Curtis.
Curtis, William, 1746-1799.Date: [etc.] 1777- Pictures
A mouse eating the branch of a tree causing it to die: campaign against mice in Greece. Colour lithograph, 196- (?).
Date: [between 1960 and 1969?]Reference: 980108i