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Author: Blome, Richard, d. 1705.
Title: 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.
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Print source: 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, d. 1705.

London: Printed by S. Roycroft for Richard Blome ..., 1686.
Subject terms:
Encyclopedias and dictionaries -- Early works to 1800.
Sports -- Great Britain.
Agriculture -- Early works to 1800.
Science -- Early works to 1800.
Hunting -- Early works to 1800.
Veterinary medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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Table of Contents
PLANIMETRY, OR SURVEYING.
COSMOGRAPHY, OR ASTRONOMY.
The Second Part of COSMOGRAPHY, VIZ. GEOGRAPHY.
HORSMANSHIP.
PART I.
CHAP. XVII.
HAWKING AND FAULCONRY.
PART II.
HUNTING.
PART III.
THE COMPLEAT ART OF FOWLING.
PART IV.
AGRICULTURE, OR HUSBANDRY.
PART VI.
CHAP. XII.