Cheape and good husbandry for the vvell-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 tame-conies. Shewing further, the whole art of riding great-horses ... and the dieting of the running, hunting, and ambling horse ... Also, approued rules, for the cramming and fatting of all sorts of poultry and fowles ... Together with the vse and profit of bees: the making of fish-ponds, and the taking of all sorts of fish. Gathered together for the generall good and profit of this whole realme ... differing from all former and forraine experiments, which eyther agreed not with our clime, or were too hard to come by, or ouer-costly, and to little purpose: all which herein are auoyded.
- Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
- Date:
- 1623
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Cheape and good husbandry for the well-ordering of all beasts, and fowles, and for the generall cure of their diseases
Cheape and good husbandry for the well-ordering of all beasts, and fowles, and for the generall cure of their diseases.
Publication/Creation
London : Printed by T[homas] S[nodham] for Roger Iackson, and are to be sold at his shop neere the Conduit in Fleetstreet, 1623.
Physical description
24 unnumbered pages, 179 pages, 1 unnumbered page
Edition
The third edition.
Notes
Dedication signed: G.M., i.e. Gervase Markham.
Printer's name from STC.
The first leaf is blank except for a fleuron.
Includes an abridgment of his "How to chuse, ride, trayne, and dyet, both hunting horses and running horses" (STC 17350), which was in turn an enlarged edition of his: A discource of horsmanshippe.
Also issued as part 2 of his: A way to get wealth, 1623.
Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
References note
STC (2nd ed.) 17338.
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1027:3) s1999 miun s