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  • The gentleman's recreation, in four parts. Viz. Hunting, hawking, fowling. fishing. Wherein those generous exercises are largely treated of; and the Terms of Art for Hunting and Hawking, more amply enlarged than heretofore. Also the Method of Breeding and Managing a Hunting-Horse: Unto which is now annex'd an Appendix of choice Receipts for the Cure of several Maladies. Whereto is added, a perfect abstract of all the forest-laws, and of every particular Act of Parliament since Magna Charta to this Time, as do any Way relate to the several kinds of Game above-mention'd; with several Forms of Warrants relating thereto, never before printed. To which is prefix'd a large sculpture, giving easy direction for blowing the horn. And four other sculptures proper to each Recreation.

    • Cox, Nicholas, active 1673-1731.
    Date
    MDCCXXI. [1721]
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  • A man points his gun at a bird in the air while his dogs are avid to fetch the prey. Steel engraving by Harris, 18--.

    • Harris (Steel engraver)
    Date
    [approximately 1860?]
    Reference
    41631i
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  • Hungers preuention: or, the whole arte of fowling by water and land. Containing all the secrets belonging to that arte, and brought into a true forme or method, by which the most ignorant may know how to take any kind of fowle, either by land or water. Also, exceeding necessary and profitable for all such as trauell by Sea, and come into vninhabited places: Especially, all those that haue any thing to doe with new Plantations / [Gervase Markham].

    • Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.
    Date
    [1621]
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  • Two stockbrokers out shooting game in Hornsey Wood have a picnic: one of them compares them to swallows, as they awallow food and a bottle of sherry. Lithograph after R. Seymour.

    • Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836.
    Date
    1830-1839
    Reference
    29296i
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  • Les amusemens innocens, contenant le traité des oiseaux de voliere, ou le parfait oiseleur ... / Traduit en partie de l'ouvrage italien d'Olina & mis en ordre d'après les avis des plus habiles oiseleurs.

    • Olina, Giovanni Pietro.
    Date
    1774
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  • Top left, gamebirds watching in safety while hunters and poachers shoot each other; top right, a graveyard for colonial institutions in Africa; bottom left, spoonbills (birds) made of teapots and spoons; bottom centre, two men talking about a hen and some ducklings; bottom right, a weather vane in the form of a man holding a gun. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1831.

    • Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.
    Date
    Feb.y 1831
    Reference
    578913i
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  • The gentleman's recreation : in four parts, viz. hunting, hawking, fowling, fishing ; wherein those ... exercises are largely treated of, and the terms of art for hunting and hawking more amply enlarged ... Also the method of breeding and managing a hunting-horse: unto which is now annex'd an appendix of choice [with] receipts for the cure of several maladies. Whereto is added [an abridgment of Manwood's Forest laws, and of all the acts ... made since; which relate to hunting, etc.] A perfect abstract of all the forest-laws, and of every particular act of Parliament since Magna charta ... to which is prefix'd a large sculpture, giving easy directions for blowing the horn and other sculptures proper to each recreation, / [Nicholas Cox].

    • Cox, Nicholas, active 1673-1721.
    Date
    1721
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  • Der Vogelsteller, oder, Die Kunst allerley Arten von Vögeln sowohl ohne als auch auf dem Vogelheerd bequem und in Menge zu fangen : nebst den dahin gehörigen Kupfern und einer Naturgeschichte der bekannten und neuentdeckten Vögel / von Johann Andreas Naumann.

    • Naumann, Johann Andreas, 1744-1826.
    Date
    1980
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  • Curd, P. de

    • Curd, P. de
    Date
    1651-1662
    Reference
    MS.1975
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  • M. de Mélincourt proudly returns from the hunt with his son, who presents to his mother and his aunt the game he has shot, though they doubt his claim. Engraving.

    Date
    1800-1899
    Reference
    34705i
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