Cheap and good husbandry, for the well-ordering of all beasts and fowls, and for the general cure of their diseases : Containing the natures, breeding, choice, use, feeding, and curing of the diseases of all manner of cattel, as horse, ox, cow, sheep, goats, swine, and tame conies. Shewing further the whole art of riding great horses, with the breaking and ordering of them, and the dyeting of the running, hunting, and ambling horse, and the manner how to use them in their travel. Also, approved rules for the cramming, and fatting of all sorts of poultry, and fowls, ... Together with the use and profit of bees, the manner of fish-ponds, and the taking of all sorts of fish. Gathered together for the generall good and profit of the common-wealth, ... differing from all former and forrain experiments.
- Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
- Date:
- 1668
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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
Publication/Creation
London : printed by John Streater, for George Sawbridge, at his house on Clerken-well-Green, 1668.
Physical description
10 unnumbered pages, 146 pages, 10 unnumbered pages : illustrations
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Edition
Newly corrected and enlarged with many excellent additions. The twelfth edition.
References note
Wing (2nd ed.) M616
Notes
Dedication signed: G.M., i.e. Gervase Markham.
Reproduction of the original in the Harvard University Library.
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1854:14) s1999 miun s