The gentleman's recreations :. in three parts :the first part contains a short and easie introduction to all the liberal arts and sciences &c. : the second treats of horsemanship, hawking, hunting, fowling, fishing agriculture &c.:done from the most authentick authors, especially several lately printed at Paris, as may be seen in the preface; with great enlargements, made by those well experienced in the respective recreations. : The third is a complete body of all our forest, chace, and game-laws, as they are at this time. : The whole illustrated with near an hundred copper-cuts relating to the several subjects, particularly all sorts of nets, engines, traps, &c. are added for the taking of wild beasts, fowl, fish, &c. not hitherto publish'd by any.
Richard Blome (1635 - 1705)
Category
Books
Date
1709 - 1710
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
NT 3098655
Summary
Bibliographic description
The 2d ed. corrected, with near one half of additions.. 3 v. in 1. :. ill. ;. fol. Accession no. 3777. Provenance: Bequest of James de Rothschild, 1957. Binding: English calf, gilt spine, after 1820.
Makers and roles
Richard Blome (1635 - 1705)